Manama (ANTARA News/AFP) - Three people were killed and 195 wounded when police launched a violent crackdown against anti-government protesters in Manama on Thursday, the health minister said, after the opposition reported four deaths.

"The health ministry has counted three dead and around 195 wounded," Faisal al-Hamr was quoted by the official BNA news agency as saying.

Hamr said most of those injured had returned home, but that 43 people were still being treated, including one whom doctors were trying to resuscitate.

Earlier, opposition figures had reported four people killed and scores wounded. (*)

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