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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on October 03, 2017, 07:30:23 am
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Explosion wounds five Bahraini policemen -agency
Reuters | Published — Monday 2 October 2017
DUBAI: Five Bahraini policemen suffered minor injures in a “terrorist explosion” outside the capital Manama on Monday, the state news agency reported.
The agency said the blast occurred in the village of Daih on Budaiya road while the policemen were guarding a procession by Shiite Muslims marking the annual Ashura festival, which commemorates the death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein some 1400 years ago.
The agency quoted the interior ministry as saying on its Twitter account that “the necessary steps” were being taken, without giving any details.
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