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| Ministry: Two Bahrain Police Killed in 'Terror' Blast |
| 2015-07-29 |
| [AnNahar] A kaboom killed two Bahrain coppers and maimed six others Tuesday in an area often shaken by festivities between security forces and Shiite Moslem protesters, the interior ministry said. Bahrain has seen frequent unrest since the minority Sunni rulers of the small Gulf kingdom crushed a Shiite-led uprising four years ago. The blast in Sitra island outside the capital Manama comes days after the Bahraini authorities announced they had foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons from Iran. Bahrain's main Shiite opposition al-Wefaq condemned the bombing, insisting that it "categorically rejected" violence. Police blocked routes leading to the island following the kaboom -- the latest in a series of blasts targeting police in Shiite villages, witnesses said. "The explosives used in the terrorist incident are of the same quality of explosives seized recently while being smuggled from Iran," the BNA state news agency reported. The interior ministry described the blast as a "terror" attack. Footage of the aftermath of the kaboom showed a shrapnel-riddled police bus with shattered windows. Since the Arab Spring-inspired 2011 uprising, protesters demanding political reforms have clashed frequently with security forces in Shiite villages outside Manama. Human rights groups say at least 89 people have been killed. Prominent opposition figures have been placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! , including the leader of the Shiite opposition Ali Salman, who was sentenced in June to four years in prison for inciting disobedience and hatred. Al-Wefaq, which is headed by Salman, condemned the bombing. "Such incidents have nothing to do with the peaceful (opposition) movement... that demands democratic change in Bahrain," it said in a statement. |
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