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Hundreds shot in Bahrain protest
AT least 200 people have been shot and wounded in a Shiite village south of the Bahraini capital, a medic says, as the king imposed a state of emergency after bringing in Saudi and Emirati troops to help quell anti-regime protests.As the violence escalated, close ally the United States warned that there was "no military solution" to political upheaval in Bahrain and that any violence against peacefully expressed political demands "should be stopped". "More than 200 people we received today had been shot with buckshot," a hospital doctor in the village of Sitra, south of the capital, said by telephone. The doctor, who asked that his name not be used, said the hospital was under siege by armed gangs and security forces targeting Shi'ites - the backbone of anti-regime protests that have raged for a month Posted by: tipper 2011-03-15 |
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