AUTHORITIES have allegedly uncovered an underground bomb-making factory in Bahrain, according to Al Arabiya.

The news channel yesterday released photographs of an underground tunnel, allegedly being used by anti-government rioters to make explosives.

It reported that authorities in Bahrain had discovered the tunnel near Adhari, underneath an unlicensed mosque, and found several tools used to make the explosives.

It comes a day after the channel’s reporter Mohammed Al Arab released on his official Twitter account similar photographs of the alleged underground tunnel.

Meanwhile, life returned to normal in Eker yesterday with police removing checkpoints from the village entrances. Business was as usual for cold stores, shops and restaurants, which operated without any signs of trouble or street violence.

In some neighbourhood, police patrol jeeps and armoured vehicles were present on standby, but they did not interfere with the movement of traffic or people entering the area.

Police restrictions were put in place since Friday in East and West Eker after 19-year-old Imran Ahmed Mohammed, an officer of the Interior Ministry’s Special Security Force Command, was killed in a bomb explosion. Authorities had set up checkpoints as part of their investigation into the bombing following the arrest of seven suspects.