DUBAI: Thousands of Shia protesters in Bahrain yesterday demanded a transition government and the removal of Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, who has been premier since 1974, witnesses said.
They said the demonstrators marched in the village of Diya near the capital Manama, chanting “Resign, Khalifa!” and waving Bahraini flags.
The Shiite opposition in the tiny Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom is led by Al Wefaq, which wants a government of technocrats to rule in a transition leading to a constitutional monarchy.
Saudi factory fire kills six workers
RIYADH: A fire broke out in a factory in eastern Saudi Arabia yesterday killing six workers, a spokesman for the Jubail industrial zone said, updating an earlier death toll of five.
Civil defence teams eventually put out the blaze which began during routine maintenance work at an industrial waste processing plant, Abdel Rahman Abdel Kader told the official SPA news agency.
Jubail, on Saudi Arabia’s Gulf coast is a major port and petrochemical industry hub.
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