Manama: Three Indian expatriates severely injured here in a terror blast two days ago are recuperating in a hospital in Bahrain’s capital Manama, a media report said on Saturday.
Binoy Baby, 30, Jayabalan Markose, 47, and Anil Ebraham, 33, were injured when a homemade bomb made out of a gas cylinder exploded in Segaiya area in Manama on Thursday night, local media reported.
Markose suffered 35 per cent burns on his body including his face, back and legs, while the other two were being treated for back and leg injuries.
All the three Indians expatriates are undergoing treatment at the Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) in Manama.
According to the report, their condition was “stable” on Friday following a visit by Indian embassy officials and Indian Community Relief Fund member K.T. Salim.
The Indian trio was leaving a building near a place where attackers were blocking roads and setting tyres on fire, the report quoted an eyewitness as saying.
Baby, a safety technician, stepped out with a fire extinguisher in an attempt to control the blaze.
“They were trying to use the fire extinguisher when the gas cylinder exploded and fragments came flying, hitting them all over their bodies,” the witness said.
The explosion took place in Segaiya area close to the Bahrain Keraleeya Samajam (BKS), where families had gathered for a cultural show.
Bahrain’s interior ministry on Friday confirmed that three Asians were injured in a gas cylinder blast following acts of vandalism in Segaiya.
The outlawed militant groupm the Coalition Youth of 14 Feb Revolution, in its Twitter account, on Thursday claimed that the action was taken to send a message to the authorities for allegedly not releasing the body of a Bahraini national, Abdul Aziz Musa Al Abbar.
Al Abbar was injured after police clashed with rioters following a funeral procession on February 23 and died later.
