Nine policemen were hurt when a car hit them while they were dispersing a protest in a Bahrain Shiite village, in the first clash reported since security forces crushed a month-long protest in mid-March, BNA state news agency said.
Four of the policemen sustained critical injuries in the attack that took place on Tuesday in Nuwaidrat, South of Manama, said BNA quoting a police official.
The official said that the assailant rammed his car into police line after his brother "was wounded in the head", without specifying whether the protester was shot or sustained another kind of injury.
The assailant "sustained several wounds," he said, also without specifying the kind of injuries.
He said that police were in the village to "deal with a group trying to incite riots and vandalism."
Bahraini security forces in mid-March quashed a pro-democracy protest dominated by the Shiite majority of the Sunni-ruled kingdom, amid a crackdown on Shiite villages that led to hundreds of arrests.
Bahraini authorities say 24 people including four policemen were killed in the unrest, and they turned over 405 detainees to military courts and have released 312 others.
A special court has already sentenced four Shiites to death and three others to life in jail after convicting them of killing two policemen who were run over by cars.