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Rights monitor says 3 dead as protests rage in southern Iraq
An Iraqi human rights monitor says three anti-government protesters have died after Iraqi security forces used live ammunition to disperse crowds in the fifth day of protests in southern Iraq
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press
February 26, 2021, 6:42 PM
• 2 min read
BAGHDAD Iraqi security forces fired live ammunition into a crowd of anti-government protesters on Friday in southern Iraq, killing three people, a human rights monitor said.
It was the deadliest in five days of protests that have left a total of five protesters dead, the semi-official Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights said.
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Report: Iraqi Police Open Fire on Protesters, Injuring 111
11 Jan 2021
Anti-government protests in the southern city of Nasiriyah, Iraq, left one police officer and two demonstrators dead on Sunday, the Iraqi Army said.
The policeman was “killed by a bullet to the head,” a medic in Nasiriyah told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on January 10, the third consecutive day of the city’s protests.
Iraq’s military later confirmed the death, adding, “thirty-three other policemen were wounded in the events of the day,” without providing further detail.
Iraqi security forces allegedly “opened fire to disperse demonstrators – including some throwing stones” from Nasiriyah’s Habbubi Square on Sunday according to AFP, which cited eyewitness accounts.