Twenty-five suspects have been arrested in connection with the bomb blast that killed three police personnel, including UAE Officer First Lieutenant Tareq Mohammed Al Sabi Al Shehi, in Daih near the capital Manama on Monday. More suspects are being tracked down to bring them to justice.The Bahrain government has signalled that it is taking this attack very seriously and ministers at an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday morning pledged to “take the necessary measures to eradicate terrorist groups and those who support them”, BNA state news agency said. The government asked the interior ministry “to carry on relentlessly its combat against terrorism”, it said.
Bahrain blacklisted three anti-government groups as terrorist organisations on Tuesday, the BNA said. The cabinet put the “so-called February 14 movement, Saraya Al Ashtar (Ashtar Brigade) and Saraya Al Muqawama (Resistance Brigade) and any group associated or allied to them on lists of terrorist groups”, the BNA said.
The decision effectively outlaws these groups and makes their members subject to imprisonment. Bahrain listed LebanonÂ’s Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation last year.