DUBAI Two Bahraini policemen were killed and a third was severely wounded in a bomb attack in the mainly Shi’ite village of Sitra south of the capital Manama, the Interior Ministry said on its Twitter account on Tuesday.

“A terrorist bombing targeted policemen on duty in the Sitra area, resulting in the deaths of two of them and seriously wounding a third,” the Interior Ministry said.

(Reporting by Reem Shamseddine, writing by Sam Wilkin; Editing by Catherine Evans)