Policeman killed, inmates freed in attack on Bahrain prison
Reuters
01 January, 2017, 17:34
Update: 01 January, 2017, 17:34
Protesters throw stones towards riot police during clashes in the Shiite village of Shahrakkan, south of Manama on April 5, 2016 following the funeral of a 17-year-old whose family says died of injuries suffered in a police chase. Photo: AFP
Muscat: Armed men attacked a prison in Bahrain on Sunday, freeing several convicts and killing a policeman, the interior ministry said.
‘An armed attack on the Jau reform and rehabilitation centre resulted in the death of policeman Abdul Salam Saif and the escape of a number of inmates convicted of terrorist crimes,’ the ministry said in a statement.
Thousands of mainly Shi’ite Muslim Bahrainis are in jail on charges ranging from participating in anti-government protests to armed attacks on security forces in the Western-allied Gulf kingdom, where the US Fifth Fleet is based.