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Bomb shrapnel kills woman, wounds 3 kids: Bahrain police

Manama : A woman was killed and three children wounded when their car was hit by shrapnel from a bomb, police said Friday.

The Thursday evening blast struck in the village of East Akar, one of a string of suburbs of the capital that have seen persistent unrest.

Most of the disturbances have involved demonstrators throwing petrol bombs at police. 

A police statement carried by the official BNA news agency gave no other details of the Thursday explosion.