Manama, April 20: Saudi-backed regime forces in Bahrain have arrested a number of doctors and other medical staff, as the brutal crackdown on Bahraini anti-government protesters drag on.
Security forces broke in Ibn-Sina and al-Razi medical centers and detained an unknown number of doctors, nurses and medical staff, Reuters reported.
It is not yet clear where the medical staff have been taken to, the report added.
Witnesses say security forces besieged al-Razi medical center as the arrests were taking place.
Opposition and human rights groups believe the Bahraini government is arresting doctors who are suspected of having taken part in anti-regime protests.
Anti-government protests against the rule of the Al Khalifa dynasty in Bahrain began in mid-February.
In March, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait deployed their troops in crisis-hit Bahrain to reinforce the brutal armed clampdown on mass protests.
Scores of protesters have been killed and many others gone missing during the harsh crackdown.
The Human Rights Watch reports that more than 400 opposition activists and protesters have been arrested in Bahrain in recent weeks.
——-Agencies