DUBAI: A radical Shia group in Bahrain said yesterday its supporters blocked roads with burning tyres after police alleged one of its leaders died in an explosion while making a bomb.
The February 14 movement said on Facebook that Hussein Abdullah, one of its local leaders, had been “martyred in a terrorist attack carried out by the intelligence services”.
His death triggered anger on the streets of the state, with the group saying its supporters set alight tyres and blocked several streets in protest. Police said, in a statement carried by the official BNA news agency, that Abdullah died after suffering severe burns when a bomb he had been making exploded on the roof of his house.
The police had found five home-made bombs and materials used to make explosives in the 35-year-old’s home in the Shia village of Saar, near Manama. Abdullah’s family denied he had been killed in a bomb blast.
He had “died while working at a small workshop on the roof of the house,” it said in a statement, denying he was making a bomb or that there were any explosives in the residence.
AFP
