MANAMA - Death toll rises after clashes the night in Manama, the capital of Bahrain and the violence does not seem to stop. Five victims of the violence broke out last night to square the Pearl in Manama as reported by Al Jazeera. And the evidence that the American envoy arrives via twitter New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, are dramatic: protesters handcuffed and executed, prevented rescue the injured, ambulance drivers threatened, journalists locked.
The police intervened at dawn, he removed the curtains of the demonstrators in the square, still covered with the smoke of tear gas fired into the night. Ambulance sirens and explosions were heard in hundreds of meters from the site of the clashes, as the hum of the engines of some military helicopters.
Salmaniya hospital, the main hospital in Manama, continue to reach hundreds of injured people in need of assistance. Today armored army were deployed near the square, while the ABC television made it known that its reporter was beaten up while at work, beaten during a violent police office in the square.
Miguel Marquez was a telephone connection with the preparation when it was heard shouting: "No, no, no, I am a journalist ... I go, I go, they beat me." The connection was interrupted abruptly and then Marquez explained that we have seen steal the camera and was beaten by a group of thugs in the square that hosted events antiregime tonight.
LOOK AT THE PICTURES harsh testimony that arrive via Twitter. The envoy of the New York Times Kristof, in his post talks about a situation that is deteriorating rapidly, several protesters beaten by police, hit on the head, some executed on the spot, according to the account of local journalists.
A nurse reported seeing a prisoner handcuffed, beaten by the police and then killed by a gunshot. An ambulance driver, writes Kristof, in an interview he said that he was threatened with a gun to his head if he rescue the injured, he would be killed. The government of Bahrain has banned the ambulance to get out of hospitals.
Over six hundred wounded arrived at hospitals, mainly affects the head. Foreign journalists are stuck at the airport, so that they can watch what is happening in the country, says Kristof. In a statement from the Interior Ministry, General Tarek Al Hassan said that "security forces have evacuated the square of the Pearl after having exhausted all possibilities for dialogue with the demonstrators.
"Some have left the place of their own volition, others have refused to submit to the law and was necessary to intervene to disperse them," added the senior officer. The European Union condemns police violence against Bahrain's anti-government protesters and called on local authorities to respect the right of citizens to peaceful protest: the report of the Head of the Delegation of European diplomacy, Catherine Ashton.
Hot situation in Libya, where two nights ago in Benghazi, dozens of people were injured and two others, according to unconfirmed reports, have died in clashes with police and supporters of Muammar Gaddafi. For now the country is expected to 'day of anger', convened by internet Libyan opposition.
Meanwhile, the death toll from clashes in the city of Al Beida, in the east, between anti-government protesters and security forces is at least 9 dead, 13 according to other sources, refer to the sites of Libyan opposition.
The police intervened at dawn, he removed the curtains of the demonstrators in the square, still covered with the smoke of tear gas fired into the night. Ambulance sirens and explosions were heard in hundreds of meters from the site of the clashes, as the hum of the engines of some military helicopters.
Salmaniya hospital, the main hospital in Manama, continue to reach hundreds of injured people in need of assistance. Today armored army were deployed near the square, while the ABC television made it known that its reporter was beaten up while at work, beaten during a violent police office in the square.
Miguel Marquez was a telephone connection with the preparation when it was heard shouting: "No, no, no, I am a journalist ... I go, I go, they beat me." The connection was interrupted abruptly and then Marquez explained that we have seen steal the camera and was beaten by a group of thugs in the square that hosted events antiregime tonight.
LOOK AT THE PICTURES harsh testimony that arrive via Twitter. The envoy of the New York Times Kristof, in his post talks about a situation that is deteriorating rapidly, several protesters beaten by police, hit on the head, some executed on the spot, according to the account of local journalists.
A nurse reported seeing a prisoner handcuffed, beaten by the police and then killed by a gunshot. An ambulance driver, writes Kristof, in an interview he said that he was threatened with a gun to his head if he rescue the injured, he would be killed. The government of Bahrain has banned the ambulance to get out of hospitals.
Over six hundred wounded arrived at hospitals, mainly affects the head. Foreign journalists are stuck at the airport, so that they can watch what is happening in the country, says Kristof. In a statement from the Interior Ministry, General Tarek Al Hassan said that "security forces have evacuated the square of the Pearl after having exhausted all possibilities for dialogue with the demonstrators.
"Some have left the place of their own volition, others have refused to submit to the law and was necessary to intervene to disperse them," added the senior officer. The European Union condemns police violence against Bahrain's anti-government protesters and called on local authorities to respect the right of citizens to peaceful protest: the report of the Head of the Delegation of European diplomacy, Catherine Ashton.
Hot situation in Libya, where two nights ago in Benghazi, dozens of people were injured and two others, according to unconfirmed reports, have died in clashes with police and supporters of Muammar Gaddafi. For now the country is expected to 'day of anger', convened by internet Libyan opposition.
Meanwhile, the death toll from clashes in the city of Al Beida, in the east, between anti-government protesters and security forces is at least 9 dead, 13 according to other sources, refer to the sites of Libyan opposition.
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