MANAMA - TWO people died and hundreds were wounded in clashes between anti-regime protesters and Bahrain's security forces on Tuesday, as the king imposed a state of emergency a day after calling in foreign troops.
Top Bahraini Shi'ite clerics sought Muslim and international help as they warned that anti-regime protesters would be targeted with a 'massacre'.
And as the violence escalated Iran, Bahrain's Shi'ite neighbour across the Gulf, protested the 'unacceptable' intervention of foreign troops there. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meanwhile, called on Bahrainis to resolve the crisis politically.
'More than 200 people we received today had been shot with buckshot,' a hospital medic in the village of Sitra, south of the capital, told AFP by telephone.
More than 200 others had been admitted to hospital suffering from tear gas inhalation, and the hospital itself was under siege by armed gangs and security forces, he added.
They were targeting Shi'ites - the backbone of anti-regime protests that have raged for a month, he said. The medic said people had 'confronted the gangs when they arrived in the village', only to discover that they were carrying guns. -- AFP
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