Thursday, March 17, 2011

Bahrain: Six dead in clearing the square of the Pearl

Bahraini security forces on Wednesday, pearls place, the center of protests in the capital Manama, evicted by force. The protesters had earlier increased the barricades. They could not stop the advancing soldiers. Then the soldiers reopened the roads leading to the financial center that was previously blocked.


In the operation, according to the opposition, at least five demonstrators were killed and more than 200 were injured. State television reported the death of two policemen. Early Wednesday morning stormed by tanks and helicopters supported Bahrain soldiers and police the place they were approaching from all directions and let so the protesters no chance to escape.

They used tear gas and rubber bullets. Even in the early hours of Wednesday more than 500 demonstrators had camped in the square. The news channel Al Jazeera reported explosions and the place the rising smoke plume. Saudi and Emirati security forces who had arrived in Manama on Monday, are manifest in the suppression of the protests were not involved.

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