DUBAI: Bahraini police fired tear gas and sound grenades after hundreds of youths demonstrated on Sunday against the death of a 15-year-old
Confrontations between security forces and protesters take place almost daily "After the funeral, many of the mourners started protesting and the police began using tear gas and sound bombs.
It is still going on hours later," a resident told Reuters from south of the capital Manama.
At least one demonstrator was injured after being hit in the head by a tear gas canister, activists said in Twitter messages.
The opposition said earlier that Sayed Hashim Saeed, who died on Saturday, had been hit by a tear gas canister at close range.
But officials said the youth's body had extensive burns which could not have been caused by a tear gas canister.
"Preliminary investigations show that the deceased was among those who took part in attacks on security forces by throwing petrol bombs," the state news agency BNA quoted a police official as saying.
A coroner's report said the youth had a neck wound which may have been fatal and that the cause of death would be investigated.
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