Bahraini rioters threw stones and molotov cocktails at police during clashes today.
YouTube has video of the clashes HERE.
Demonstrators clash with riot police during a march to protest the death of Ali Jassim in Bahrain’s capital Manama December 20, 2007. Jassim died three days ago during clashes between riot police and demonstrators at a marty’s day protest. (REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed)
The Bahrain Tribune reported on the clashes.
An anti-riot police car was set on fire and the car of the General Director of Traffic was slightly damaged when clashes erupted in the wake of Ali Jassim Al Barbari who died while taking part in a protest on Monday in Sanabis.
Hundreds of protesters hurled Molotov cocktails and stones at anti-riot police after unconfirmed news spread that an undercover police unit was involved in an accident in which a protester was injured shortly after the wake ended in Jid Hafs.
The procession was led by the head of the opposition Al Wefaq parliamentary block, Shaikh Ali Salman, and head of Haaq (Justice) Movement, Hasan Mushima among others from Jid Hafs religious centre to the nearby burial ground where Ali Jassim Al Barbari was buried.
Demonstrators set a police car on fire during clashes with riot police at a march to protest the death of Ali Jassim in Bahrain’s capital Manama December 20, 2007. Jassim died three days ago during clashes between riot police and demonstrators at a martyr’s day protest. (REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed)
Mahmoud’s Den has more on the death of Ali Jassim at the Martyr’s Day protest.