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Monday, November 23, 1998 Published at 15:32 GMT


World: Middle East

Saboteurs arrested in Bahrain


The authorities in Bahrain say they've arrested six people on suspicion of planning sabotage attacks to destabilise the country.

The official Gulf News Agency qouted an interior ministry official as saying the group -- including one Lebanese and five Bahrainis -- had set up terrorist and sabotage acts.

The official said the suspects smuggled arms into the country and had been trained in south Lebanon

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