Bahraini boys throw wood onto a fire during clashes with riot police after a protest against the death of Bahraini man, Abdul Aziz al-Abbar, early on July 4, 2014 in the village of Sanabis, west of Manama
Reuters/Manama
A Bahraini policeman died on Saturday of wounds sustained in a bombing that the Interior Ministry said was a terrorist act.
Attacks on security forces have been on the rise in the strategically located country, which hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet, more than three years after authorities quelled Shia Muslim-led protests against the Sunni-led government.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack on Friday night.
The Interior Ministry said on its Twitter account that the policeman was on duty when the explosion occurred near the village of East Eker, south of the capital Manama.
Police chief Tariq al-Hassan, in a statement received by Reuters on Saturday, identified the policeman as Mahmoud Fareed, and said he had died early on Saturday in hospital.
One of the deadliest attacks in recent months was in March, when three policemen were killed by a remotely detonated home-made bomb. A car bomb on April 19 killed two men and wounded another in a mainly Shia village.