2021-05-25 23:05:44 GMT2021-05-26 07:05:44(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BAGHDAD, May 25 (Xinhua) A demonstrator was killed on Tuesday during a protest in the Iraqi capital Baghdad against the impunity for those who launched deadly attacks on anti-government protesters and activists in the past months.
An Interior Ministry source told Xinhua that thousands of protesters gathered on three main squares in Baghdad, including the al-Tahrir Square in downtown Baghdad.
Many protesters raised Iraqi flags and pictures of the protesters who were killed previously in anti-corruption demonstrations held since October 2019.
Iraqi security forces arrested four people who tried to infiltrate the demonstration near the al-Tahrir Square, according to a statement issued by the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC).
Xinhua | Updated: 2021-04-27 09:50 Share CLOSE Medical staff members walk near the main entrance of Ibn Khatib hospital where a fire was sparked by an oxygen tank explosion, in Baghdad, Iraq, April 26, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi Independent High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) said on Monday that the death toll of the hospital fire on Saturday night might reach 130. The approximate number of deaths, according to the testimonies obtained by the IHCHR team, may reach 130, including unidentified badly charred bodies, said an IHCHR statement.
According to the IHCHR team, the fire was caused by an explosion of an oxygen cylinder inside Ibn al-Khatib Hospital dedicated to treating coronavirus patients in the east of the capital Baghdad, the statement added.
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BEIRUT
A pair of suicide bombers hit a crowded market in Baghdad on Thursday, Iraq’s civil defense agency said, killing at least 32 people, injuring more than 100 others and reigniting fears of a return to the days when such attacks were a daily occurrence in the Iraqi capital.
The first of the bombers approached Tayaran Square, a major intersection in Baghdad’s downtown area near the Bab Sharqi open-air market for used clothing and surplus military gear.
Sometime before 10 a.m., the attacker pretended to be sick to draw people to him, then detonated his explosives-laden vest, according to officials and local news reports.