Anti-government campaign gains momentum in Bahrain

PanARMENIAN.Net - Thousands of protesters are gathering the Bahraini capital Manama after two days of clashes with police in which two people died.

Many of them have been attending the funeral of the second victim, killed at the funeral of the first.

Some say they will stage a sit-in on the main square until their demands for political reform are met.

Meanwhile the interior minister said police allegedly involved in the killings had been arrested.

The disturbances in Bahrain - where the Shia majority has been ruled by a Sunni Muslim royal family since the 18th Century - are part of a wave of anti-government unrest that has swept the Middle East, BBC reported.

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