BANGKOK — A Thai court will deliver its verdict today in the long-delayed case of a 2015 attack at a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people, the deadliest bombing in the country’s history.

Two Uyghur men, Yusufu Mieraili and Bilal Mohammed, stand accused of planting a bomb at a Hindu shrine in Bangkok’s commercial heart in August 2015. The defendants have denied the charges.

The decade-long trial over the horrific attack in Thailand’s capital that also wounded more than 100 people was beset by delays due to coronavirus disruptions and problems securing translators.

Multiple Chinese tourists were among the dead when explosives—apparently left in a backpack—detonated at the Erawan Hindu shrine popular with tourists.

The blast came weeks after Thailand’s then-ruling junta forcibly repatriated 109 Uyghurs to China, where rights groups say the Muslim minority face cultural and religious repression.

The timing prompted speculation that the attack was part of a revenge plot against a country that had been a key transit hub for Uyghurs as Thailand’s then-military leaders grew closer to Beijing.