Bahrain tightens security amid ISIL threats
Security beefed up around mosques after ISIL says "Bahrain is next" following deadly attack in neighbouring Kuwait.
3 July
Bahrain is beefing up security measures around the country's mosques over threats made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, the interior ministry said.
The measures were taken after a
suicide attack on a Shia mosque in neighbouring Kuwait last week, in which an ISIL member killed 27 people.
Security volunteers trained by the civil defence were deployed in different parts of the country to support the work of the police on Friday, when large numbers of Muslims flock to mosques to perform noon prayers.
Police forces imposed stronger measures around the country's biggest mosques and screened worshippers as they entered to pray.