<p><br /> Bahraini troops have opened fire on demonstrators according to a former politician, as the government continued a crack-down on opposition protests.<br /> </p><p><br /> Jalal Firooz, a member of the Wefaq bloc that resigned from parliament on Thursday, said demonstrators, marking the death of a protester killed earlier this week, had made for Pearl Square, where army troops opened fire.<br /> </p><p><br /> Earlier, soldiers fired tear gas and fired into the air as thousands defied a ban in the capital Manama.<br /> </p><p><br /> Four people were killed and 231 wounded when riot police raided a protest camp in the early hours of Thursday, when most of the demonstrators were sleeping.<br /> </p><p><br /> Soldiers in tanks and armoured vehicles later took control of the square, which mainly Shia protesters had hoped to use as a base similar to Cairo's Tahrir Square, the heart of protests that toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.<br /> </p><p><br /> Several thousand mourners turned out on Friday to bury those killed in what Bahrain's top Shia cleric called a "massacre" ordered by the island's Sunni ruling family to crush protests.<br /> </p>
