DUBAI Bahrainis preparing to bury a teenager killed in clashes with police in a Shiite village near the capital torched a police car, the interior ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said the police car caught fire and burned on Friday night after being hit by a Molotov cocktail in the village of Mikshaa, west of Manama. Witnesses said police used tear gas to disperse people who had gathered in protest for a second consecutive night Friday. His funeral was held on Saturday. The Interior Ministry said police were investigating a report that a dead person had been brought into a clinic in the town of Sitra, south of the capital Manama. The kingdom has suffered low-level civil unrest since mass protests in 2011 led by Shiites demanding reforms and a bigger share of power in the state. The main opposition group Al Wefaq named the young man as Sayed Mahmoud Sayed Mohsen and said he was 15. A witness said his upper left side appeared to have been hit by a burst of birdshot. Local residents described him as a “citizen journalist” who had been filming and photographing demonstrations and clashes and posting them on social media. Residents said the clashes erupted at the end of a traditional three-day mourning period for a young Bahraini who died in a blast on Friday. Local media said that a young man, identified as Ali Faisal Al Akrawi, was planting a bomb targeting policemen when he died. Militants have increasingly been using explosive devices to target security forces in the past year and a half. In the worst attack last March, three policemen were killed by a remotely detonated bomb in a village west of Manama.
