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Arabia
Bahrain Youth Killed in Clashes with Police
2014-05-22
[AnNahar] A Bahraini youth was killed on Wednesday in festivities with police at a Shiite village near the capital Manama, the main Shiite opposition bloc Al-Wefaq said.

"Mahmud Mohsen succumbed to his wounds after being hit by buckshot on Wednesday in Sitra," Al-Wefaq said on Twitter.

The interior ministry said police had been notified that a dead person was admitted to a clinic in Sitra, and added that an investigation was underway.

Witnesses said the festivities broke out in the afternoon during a ceremony to mark the death of a Shiite killed in an kaboom on Friday last week.

Bahrain remains deeply divided three years after security forces crushed an Arab Spring-inspired uprising, with persistent protests sparking festivities with police, scores of Shiites tossed in the calaboose
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on "terror" charges and reconciliation talks deadlocked.

Attacks on the security forces have intensified in the Sunni Mohammedan-ruled kingdom, mainly in Shiite-populated villages surrounding the capital.
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