Bahrain accuses Iran of training oil pipeline ‘bombers’

Bahrain says it has arrested four men suspected of bombing a Saudi Aramco oil pipeline, accusing Iran of training and arming two of the suspects.

The blast on November 10 cut off the pipeline linking Bahrain’s Bapco refinery with oil giant Aramco’s main pumping station in neighbouring Saudi Arabia’s Dhahran province.

Authorities at the time blamed “terrorists” for the explosion.

The interior ministry this afternoon says that four Bahraini men, aged 23 to 27, had been arrested for “plotting” and “remotely bombing” the pipeline outside the capital Manama.

Two of the four had received “intensive training at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard camps with the help of the leading fugitive terrorists living in Iran,” it says in a statement.

Three others remain at large, according to the statement.

— AFP