Bahrain labourers face eviction from residential areas

EVICTION TALKS: Labourers face being removed from accommodation in residential areas in Bahrain.

Bahrain could ban all labour accommodation in residential neighbourhoods under proposals being considered by the Gulf state's five municipal councils.

Officials will sit down later this month to draw up a law that could lead to the eviction of all labour camps from built-up areas.

The move follows the alleged rape of a six-year-old Bahraini boy by an Asian worker in Isa Town, Gulf Daily News reported on Wednesday.

Police in the Central Governorate have already agreed to increase patrols in densely populated areas as a result of the incident, Central Municipal Council chairman Abdulrahman Al Hassan told the paper.

And all municipal councils in Bahrain are now planning to meet on October 21 to discuss solutions to the labour accommodation issue.

It follows years of complaints from Bahraini families, who say foreign workers living next to their homes have made their lives a misery.

Manama Municipal Council is already planning to evict foreign labourers from such accommodation as workers were suffering in cramped conditions in overcrowded old houses.

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