Bomb blast close to British embassy in Bahrain

[Gerald]

A bomb has exploded near the British embassy in Bahrain, according to the Bahrain Interior Ministry.A UK Foreign Office spokeswoman said it was aware of a small blast, in the capital Manama, which had caused no casualties nor damage to the embassy.She said the Foreign Office was liaising with the Bahrain Interior Ministry and was not going to speculate on the cause of the explosion.Police and fire services attended the scene after the blast on Sunday.A Bahrain Interior Ministry spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Saleh Salem, said security has been tightened in the Ras Raman area of Manama, where the bomb went off, and police have opened an investigation.

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note: 4 December 2011 Last updated at 13:46 GMT