DUBAI, April 9 (Reuters) – Seven Bahraini policemen were
wounded, three of them seriously, when a home-made bomb exploded
on Monday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said, during a protest
near the capital calling for the release of an activist on a
two-month hunger strike.
Protesters threw petrol bombs at riot police to lure
officers into Eker, a Shi’ite village outside the capital
Manama, before the explosion was set-off, the spokesman said.
“We consider this an act of terrorism,” the spokesman said
of the explosion.
On Sunday, Bahrain ruled out extraditing jailed Bahraini
political activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, also a Danish citizen,
despite a request from Denmark to hand him over because his
health was worsening after the two-month hunger strike.
Daily protests to demand his freedom have been taking place
across the Gulf Arab state, which crushed protests mostly by
majority Shi’ite Muslims against the Sunni royal family last
year.
(Writing by Firouz Sedarat; Editing by Alison Williams)
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