Bahrain police said on Thursday seized a large quantity of explosives meant to target security forces in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, the country’s Interior Ministry said.
An equivalent of 222 kg of TNT, was sized in a raid on June 6 on a warehouse in a residential area in Dar Kulaib village near Manama, the ministry said.
It said the two ringleaders behind the terror plot were known to be fugitives with links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps.
“They formed and recruited a terrorist group that targets the security of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia,” the ministry said in a statement.
“This included providing military training to members, smuggling explosives and travels to Iraq and Iran to receive intensive training on how to make and use explosives and guns, as well as scuba diving skills to plant mines and explosives in the sea,” the statement said.
“After notifying the Public Prosecution, the crime scene and forensic lab teams moved to the location and removed the items from a hidden area behind the wall of a room in the house,” it said. “Analysis and comparison of lab results from previous cases pointed to Iran and Iraq as the source of the materials.”
