MANAMA: A policeman was wounded when a homemade bomb exploded in a village in Bahrain yesterday, the Interior Ministry said, in the latest of a series of attacks by suspected Shia militants on security forces.
No one claimed responsibility for the blast in the village of al-Daih, west of the capital Manama.
“A terrorist act targeted the lives of policemen who were on duty in the village of Al Daih, using a homemade bomb that injured one security man,” the ministry said in a brief statement.
Bahrain has for three years been grappling with unrest by its Shia community demanding political reform and an end to perceived discrimination in the Sunni Muslim-ruled country. Bahrain denies discrimination.
The Western-allied kingdom is the base for the US Fifth Fleet and a bulwark against Shi’ite giant Iran across the Gulf.
In the most serious attack in recent months, three policemen were killed in a bomb attack on March 3 in Daih while security forces were trying to disperse a group who were blocking roads in the village after a funeral.
Since then, several explosions, mostly of homemade bombs, have injured at least three policemen in Shia villages around Manama.
A bomb exploded in a car in Manama on Sunday as the kingdom hosted a Formula One motor racing Grand Prix. No one was hurt and the Grand Prix was unaffected.
Reuters
