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This horrifying video shows the sky turning black as a swarm of locusts descends on Bahrain today.

In the clip, filmed by stunned witnesses cowering in their car, a dark cloud of flying insects swarms above a road in the normally-sunny Middle Eastern island nation.

As if sharing a single mind, thousands of bugs are all heading in the same direction – to gorge on any plants in their path.

The apocalyptic scene results in people stopping their cars, either too scared to drive with such poor visibility or to marvel at the unsettling spectacle.

(Image: Twitter / Girish Govindankutty)

Dropping from the sky, one of the engorged bugs lands on the driver’s windscreen and looks to be several inches long.

A person in the car can be heard making what sounds like noises of disgust.

Pakistan earlier declared a national emergency shortly after this footage showed a plague of locusts blocking out the Sun in the nation.

Another terrifying video filmed in Kenya showed how locusts appeared out of nowhere and then swarmed around a motorist.

In some areas of eastern Africa, the swarm was said to be 360 billion locusts-strong and the worst attack in more than 25 years.

China has insisted it is not scared of the approaching plague of insects as the first ones were filmed landing inside its border.

The nation has deployed an army of 100,000 ducks to deal with the problem using nothing but their bills and a voracious appetite.

Runner ducks – which walk upright like penguins – can be trained to feed on locusts and charge towards their prey at the command of a whistle, according to the BBC.