DUBAI: A bomb in a Shiite village outside the Bahraini capital has killed one person, the second blast in a suburb of Manama this week, the interior ministry said yesterday. The Sunni-ruled Gulf state has been rocked by unrest among its Shiite majority since 2011, when security forces crushed Shiite-led protests demanding a constitutional monarchy and an elected prime minister.
The interior ministry gave no date for the latest bombing saying only that a body discovered on Monday was found to have been killed in a bombing. "An initial investigation into a body found on a farm in the village of Hajar on June 19 showed the death was the result of a bomb blast," the ministry said, without elaborating. Police meanwhile made several arrests in connection with a Sunday night bombing outside Manama that killed a policeman and wounded two others, the ministry said. That blast struck in the flashpoint village of Diraz, home of the spiritual leader of Bahrain's Shiite majority, Isa Qassim.