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Bahraini woman dies after inhaling tear gas
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The Associated Press
Date: Saturday Jul. 16, 2011 9:06 AM ET
MANAMA, Bahrain — A Bahraini rights activist says a woman has died during clashes between riot police and anti-government protesters in the Gulf kingdom.
Nabeel Rajab, the president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, said Saturday that 47-year-old Zainab Hasan Ahmed al-Jumaa suffocated after inhaling tear gas fired by riot police during a demonstration Friday near her home in Sitra, the hub of Bahrain's oil industry.
Her death brings to 33 the number of those who have died since February when Bahrain's Shiite majority started protests for greater freedoms in the Sunni-ruled kingdom.
Bahrain's Interior Ministry denied al-Jumaa's death was linked to a police operation and said in a statement posted on the ministry's website late Friday that the woman died of natural causes.
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