Just days before Bahrain hosts the second of the pre-season tests, a policeman has been killed in a bomb blast.It is understood the officer was killed in an incident in the village of Dair, just twenty-five miles from the Bahrain International Circuit, during a protest to mark the third anniversary of the 2011 uprising. Early reports suggest that three other policemen were injured in the incident.On Friday, demonstrators were prevented from reaching the site of what was the Pearl Roundabout, which became the focus of the original protests in 2011 when protestors called for an end to discrimination against the majority Shia community.After much dithering by the sport's powers that be, the...
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