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Manama (AFP) Feb 17, 2011 Dozens of armoured military vehicles were deployed Thursday near Pearl Square in central Manama where Bahraini riot police had earlier launched a violent raid to clear protesters, witnesses said. The vehicles took their positions along a road near the square, the witnesses said. Police dispersed the protesters who had been in the square since Tuesday, with four people killed and 95 wounded in the crackdown.
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