DUBAI: Bahrain’s police fired tear gas and used sound bombs to disperse hundreds of demonstrators yesterday in a Shia village near the capital, witnesses said.
They said the incident took place at a road junction in Sanabis following the funeral of a 15-year-old youth.
He died earlier the same day in hospital of burns he had suffered during an attack on Friday “by a group of saboteurs on a construction firm’s warehouse,” according to the interior ministry.
The protesters chanted anti-regime slogans.
Several dead in Darfur air raid
KHARTOUM: Several people have been reported killed in an air strike in Sudan’s volatile Darfur region, international peacekeepers said yesterday.
“UNAMID has received information from local sources that several people were killed by an alleged air strike while travelling from Tabit to Shangil Tobaya,” a public information officer from the African Union-UN Mission in Darfur said. “The mission is working to ascertain the veracity of this incident” on Friday, the official said.
Sudan’s military spokesman, Sawarmi Khaled Saad, said no aircraft had been used in that area.
AFP
