MANAMA: A bomb explosion killed three Bahraini policemen on Monday during confrontations between security forces and “rioters” in a village near the capital, the Interior Ministry said.
“Three police personnel died in a terror blast in Daih while police were dispersing rioters,” the Bahraini interior ministry said on Twitter.
Earlier the ministry had said one officer and two policemen were “seriously” wounded in the village of Daih, on the outskirts of the capital Manama. It said the security forces had dispersed a “breakaway group of thugs who diverted from a funeral route in Daih to riot.”
Witnesses reported hearing a blast in Daih during a confrontation between protesters and police who fired tear gas and buckshot to disperse demonstrators.
