Bomb shrapnel kills woman, wounds 3 kids: Bahrain police
A woman was killed and three children wounded when their car was hit by shrapnel from a bomb in a restive Shia-majority district outside the Bahraini capital Manama, police said Friday.
The Thursday evening blast struck in the village of East Akar, one of a string of suburbs of the capital that have seen persistent unrest since the Gulf state’s Sunni minority rulers crushed Shiite-led protests for a constitutional monarchy and an elected prime minister in 2011.
Most of the disturbances have involved demonstrators throwing petrol bombs at police, who have deployed heavily in Shiite areas as authorities have carried out an intensifying crackdown on the majority community’s leaders.
A police statement carried by the official BNA news agency gave no other details of the Thursday explosion.
