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Bahrain security forces cleared Pearl roundabout where protesters have been camped out for several weeks as well as a medical complex, the state news agency said on Wednesday.

State television showed the square, the centre of a pro-democracy campaign, empty of protesters. According to Reuters, the BNA report denied that reports had aircraft and “weapons” had been used to clear the square.

Earlier the head of the Shi’ite Muslim opposition bloc in parliament said at least five protesters have been killed and hundreds wounded in a crackdown by Bahraini forces.

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