2013-02-14 13:00

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Manama – A teenage boy was shot dead during clashes with
police in a Shi’ite village near Manama on Thursday as hundreds took to the
streets to mark the second anniversary of an uprising in the Sunni-ruled
kingdom.

“The child Hussein al-Jaziri was martyred after he
was wounded by shotgun fire in Dia,” Bahrain’s major Shi’ite opposition
bloc Al-Wefaq announced on Twitter.

A source from Al-Wefaq’s media centre reached by
telephone confirmed the death to AFP.

The interior ministry said on its Twitter account that
“a wounded person who was brought to Al-Salmaniya hospital was pronounced
dead and the public prosecution was informed of the incident”. It gave no
further details.

Protests erupted early morning in several Shi’ite
villages as the opposition marked two years since the start of an uprising that
has left Bahrain in a political deadlock, witnesses said.

Police fired shotgun and tear gas to disperse the
protesters who responded by hurling petrol bombs at security forces, according
to witnesses.

The protests came in response to calls by opposition
groups for strikes and nationwide protests on Thursday and Friday to mark the
uprising that began on 14 February 2011.

The clandestine radical cyber group 14 February Revolution
Youth Coalition has urged marches on what was once known as Pearl Square, where
protesters camped for a month before being forcefully driven out in mid-March
2011.

Bahraini authorities have in turn appealed for people to
ignore the calls for strikes and civil disobedience.

The two years of unrest in Bahrain has left at least 80
people dead, according to the International Federation for Human Rights.

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