An anti-government protester is detained by riot police during a mourning procession for Ahmed Ismael Abdulsamad in the village of Salmabad south of Manama yesterday. Abdulsamad died early Saturday after being wounded by a gunshot said to have been fired from a car during a demonstration on Friday
Two police vehicles in Bahrain were “completely destroyed” yesterday after “saboteurs” threw petrol bombs at them south of the capital Manama, state news agency BNA reported. “A group of saboteurs attacked two police patrols south of Manama, completely destroying both vehicles,” it quoted a security official as saying, adding that the authorities were searching for the assailants to bring them to justice. Bahraini police regularly clash with demonstrators who take to the streets in Shia villages to demand democratic change. According to an independent inquiry, 35 people were killed in unrest between mid-February and mid-March 2011.