Assailants hurled gasoline bombs at a busload of police officers, wounding five of them, Bahrain’s state-run media reported Friday, calling the attackers as "terrorists." One policeman was hospitalized in critical condition after the attack late Thursday in the town of Sitra, just outside the capital, an Interior Ministry spokesman was quoted by the Bahrain Tribune as saying. The official Bahrain News Agency said "unidentified terrorists" threw gasoline bombs at the bus as it was moved through the town, 5 miles southeast of Manama. The bus was carrying 12 policemen and was attacked in front of an elementary school, the Gulf Daily News reported. Apart from the critically injured policeman, another received severe burns, the paper said. The reports, which could not confirmed with government officials as Friday is the weekend, gave no indication of who the attackers might be. Bahrain hosts the base of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet and gave quiet support to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq earlier this year.
That could be a hint, or it could be just a local dispute.
| My guess would be local wannabe Bad Boyz. It was a molotov cocktail, rather than C4. The cops were guards for "public and private establishments". |
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