5 Jul 2014

Bomb blast in Bahrain kills police officer

10:51 pm on 5 July 2014

A bomb blast in Bahrain has killed a police officer.

The Interior ministry said the officer died in hospital from wounds sustained in what it described as a terrorist act in a village south of the capital, Manama.

The Sunni-ruled island kingdom in the Gulf has been hit by unrest since protests by the majority Shi'ite community were forcefully quashed three years ago, the BBC reports.