An off-duty policeman was shot dead outside the capital late last month in what authorities also deemed a politically-motivated attack.
DUBAI A bomb exploded on a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of the Bahraini capital Manama on Sunday damaged several cars but caused no injuries, in what the interior ministry described as a "terrorist" act.
Bahrain has suffered unrest and several bomb attacks since 2011 "Arab Spring" protests led by its Shi`ite majority were repressed with the help of its Gulf Arab neighbors.
There have been increased protests in the Sunni Muslim-ruled kingdom after the execution last month of three Shi`ite Muslim men convicted of killing three policemen in a bomb attack in 2014.
[nL5N1FJ0J9](Writing By Noah Browning; editing by Sami Aboudi)
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