BAGHDAD: One protester was killed early on Monday in Iraq’s flashpoint city of Nasiriyah, a medic told AFP, as gunmen stormed the square where anti-government demonstrators had been camped out for months. The unidentified gunmen fired on protesters, killing one and wounding four others, a medical source said. Hours later, determined protesters had rallied again and shut down two main bridges in the city, some 350 kilometres south of the capital Baghdad. The main protest camp in the holy city of Najaf was also burned down overnight by unidentified gunmen, AFP’s correspondent there said on Monday. On Sunday evening, three Katyusha rockets slammed into the US embassy in the Iraqi capital, a security source said.

Source: Pakistan Today January 27, 2020 09:11 UTC