A policeman has died after being injured in a bomb attack in Bahrain. <br /><br />The blast happened during protests marking the third anniversary of the country’s uprising on Friday when demonstrators attempted to reach the site of a brutal crackdown almost three years ago.<br /><br />The policeman was one of two officers wounded in the village of Dair close to the capital in an explosion described by the interior ministry as a “terror blast.” The ministry added that a parked car was set on fire with Molotov cocktails and a police bus damaged in the incident.<br /><br />The majority Shia community says it wants democratic reform and an end to what it sees as discrimination from the minority Sunni monarchy.<br /><br />The 2011 uprising was put down by the government with help from troops from Saudi Arabia.<br /><br />The Interior Ministry said that security officers would be sent to some regions over the next few days “to ensure people’s safety.”
