Two Bahraini Police Hurt in Clashes with Protesters
Two Bahraini policemen were wounded in clashes with protesters in the hometown of a jailed Shiite opposition chief, according to an interior ministry statement in the Gulf kingdom.
"Security forces confronted groups of saboteurs in Bilad al-Qadim," the ministry said in a statement posted late Thursday on Twitter.
The "saboteurs" hurled Molotov cocktails at the policemen wounding two, it added.
Bahraini authorities usually refer to protesters as "saboteurs".
Sunni-ruled Bahrain has been shaken by unrest since it quelled a month-long, Shiite-led uprising demanding reforms in 2011.
But protesters still frequently clash with police in Shiite villages outside the capital Manama.
Bilad al-Qadim is the hometown of Shiite opposition chief Sheikh Ali Salman, currently serving a four-year jail sentence for inciting disobedience.
On Thursday, a Bahraini court jailed 19 Shiites for attacks against police, including five life sentences, according to a judicial source.
The Shiite-majority kingdom, connected to Saudi Arabia by a causeway, lies across the Gulf from Shiite Iran and is home to the US Fifth Fleet.
Bahraini authorities usually refer to protesters as "saboteurs".
refer to them as shia terrorists is more appropriate.