Police free Chinese men in Bahrain’s first hostage rescue operation
Police on Saturday morning conducted the first ever hostage rescue operation in Bahrain’s modern history and successfully freed nine Chinese supervisors held by angry labourers at a resort construction site in the coastal village of Zallaq, 40 kilometres south of Manama.
The operation followed an all night long siege of the site where the Chinese labourers held the architects and foremen and demanded that they be replaced for allegedly ill-treating them.
The interior ministry and an official from the Chinese embassy negotiated with the labourers, but could not reach a deal, sources said, prompting the police to launch its operation and free the hostages. Two labourers are believed to have been slightly injured in the drawn storming.
