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Bahrain: 3 men accused of killing 3 cops in 2014 executed by firing squad

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Bahrain: 3 men accused of killing 3 cops in 2014 executed by firing squad

The end of the road has come for three men who were accused of carrying out a deadly attack on three policemen in 2014 after the trio were executed by firing squad according to Bahrain state news agency reports.

In a statement carried by the official BNA state news agency, the three men faced the firing squad on Sunday, a week after a court upheld their death sentences over a bomb attack in March 2014.

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Scores of men and women took to the streets after the families of the three were summoned to meet them in prison, a measure that usually precedes the implementation of death sentences, witnesses said.

“No, no to execution,” the protesters chanted.

According to London-based human rights group, Reprieve, which had warned on Saturday against the move, the trio are the first in six years in the Gulf kingdom to be killed by a firing squad.

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