[2][3][4] The Ministry of Interior stated that there was a gathering of 20 people in Abu Saiba who blocked the roads and police men intervened to disperse them as authorized.
As part of a string of protests that occurred across the Arab World following the self-immolation and eventual death of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia, the mostly Shia population of Bahrain took to the streets demanding greater freedoms.
[9] According to Al Wefaq opposition party and Bahrain Centre for Human Rights al-Qattan was 16; the government put his age at 17.
The government's Information Affairs Authority said the area where al-Qattan was in, Abu Saiba, west of Manama, saw clashes that evening.
They were standing only 10 meters away from us, they didn't use tear gas or rubber bullets, they used bird pellet gunshots directly.
He told them that Ahmed died a natural death, his chest doesn't contain bird pellet gunshots and that his body is completely clean from any injures.
[12] At first ministry of interior stated that Ahmed al-Qattan died from severe respiratory and blood flow problems after he was received in hospital without saying what caused this.
[5][11] In another statement the ministry stated that they're launching an investigation into the incident "after the report of the medical examiner of the Public Prosecution attributed the death to injury" by bird pellet gunshots, but have not described under what circumstance al-Qattan was fatally wounded.
[1] On 8 October, two days after Ahmed's death, Nawaf Al-Awadi, the attorney general of the northern governorate stated that police did not use bird pellet gunshots while depressing protesters in Abu Saiba that night and that the gunshots found in Ahmed's body do not match those used by Ministry of Interior.
[10] "More injuries were expected, though the chaotic scene around a makeshift clinic near the clashes made it impossible to verify the number," Al Jazeera's reporter in Bahrain said.
[20] An Al Jazeera reporter said he saw four injured protesters, three of them apparently due to rubber bullets and one "suffered a severe facial injury after being hit by a sound grenade.
[10] Ministry of Interior said "A group of vandals blocked Budaiya highway after funeral of Ahmed Jaber, which led to interference of security forces to bring situation to normal".