Bahrain locked down after violence

Bahrain’s leaders banned public gatherings and sent tanks into the streets, intensifying a brutal crackdown that killed five anti-government protesters, injured more than 200 and turned a hospital into a cauldron of anguish and rage against the monarchy.

Bahrain’s streets were mostly empty after the bloody clampdown in the capital Manama, but thousands defied authorities by marching in cities in Libya and Yemen as the wave of political unrest continued in the wake of uprisings that toppled leaders in Egypt and Tunisia.