Protesters, police clash in Bahrain on "Day of Rage"

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Source: Reuters

Bahraini police fired teargas and rubber bullets to break up protests on Monday in Shi'ite villages that ring the capital Manama, dampening a "Day of Rage" stimulated by popular upheaval in Egypt and Tunisia.

Helicopters circled over Manama, where protesters had been due to gather but which remained quiet throughout the day, and security forces tightened their grip on Shi'ite areas. More than 20 people were hurt in village clashes, witnesses said.

Bahrain, where a Sunni Muslim family rules over a Shi'ite majority, offered cash payouts in the run-up to the protest, in a move apparently designed to prevent Shi'ite discontent from boiling over as "people power" revolts spread in the Arab world.

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