Bahrain police break up protest camp, three killed

Bahrain police break up protest camp, three killed | Reuters: "Police are coming, they are shooting teargas at us,' one protester said by telephone as police swooped at 3 a.m.. Another said: 'I am wounded, I am bleeding. They're killing us.'

Upwards of 40 army trucks and armored vehicles, including at least one tank, later deployed in and around Pearl square, a road junction demonstrators had tried to turn into a protest base like Cairo's Tahrir, a Reuters photographer said.

The crackdown by the Bahraini authorities appeared designed to snuff out the protests before they could gather momentum, unlike the sustained unrest that unseated Egypt's Mubarak.

The main Shi'ite bloc Wefaq, which holds 17 of parliament's 40 seats, planned to quit the assembly in protest. 'We feel there was a decision to hurt people,' MP Ibrahim Mattar said."

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