Manama: Five Shiite activists and one Sunni were arrested Thursday, a parliamentarian from the Shiite opposition alliance said, after a day of violence which left five dead in Bahrain.
"They were arrested in the night," Khalil Marzouq, deputy leader of the Al Wefaq opposition movement, told AFP.
Among those arrested was Hassan Mushaima, a leader of the Shiite Haq group.
Mushaima only returned to Manama from abroad on February 26 after terrorism charges against him were dropped as part of an earlier peace offering from the government to the opposition.
Human rights activist and Haq member Abdul Jalil Al Singace, who was released in February after six months in jail, was also detained, the opposition said.
Security forces cleared out a month-old sit-in at Manama's Pearl Square on Wednesday and six people, including police officers, died.
US President Barack Obama called King Hamad to express "deep concern."
