A bomb exploded on Saturday in the Bahraini village of Sitra, east of Manama, causing minor injuries to a policeman, a source from Bahrain's interior ministry said. It was not immediately clear who planted the bomb or the extent of the damage.The source told Reuters that some protesters in Sitra had also clashed with the police using iron rods and Molotov cocktails, but that no further details on casualties were available.
In a separate incident, unknown individuals set a car on fire in the kingdom's capital of Manama on a road close to the interior ministry's headquarters, but no injuries were reported.
"Thugs burn car on Shaikh Mohamed road," the Ministry of Interior said on its official Twitter account.
The island kingdom, home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, has suffered low-level civil unrest since mass protests in 2011. In 2011, Saudi Arabia and UAE sent forces to support Bahrain's rulers. Demonstrations remain frequent and often lead to clashes with security forces.