- Title: Death toll from Iraq unrest rises to 44 - sources
- Date: 4th October 2019
- Summary: BAGHDAD, IRAQ (OCTOBER 4, 2019) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS UNDER BRIDGE SOUND OF GUNFIRE/PROTESTERS RUNNING POLICE WALKING PROTESTERS WALKING POLICE FIRING GUNS PROTESTERS UNDER THE BRIDGE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER, SAYING: "The promises by Adel Abdul Mahdi are to fool the people and today they are firing live gunshots at us. Today this was a peaceful protest. They set up these barricades, and the sniper is sitting right there since last night." DEBRIS DEBRIS ON BLOCKED ROAD SIGN READING (Arabic): "Ongoing protest until the current prime minister and the corrupt party system are deposed" (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER, SAYING: "We need a government that will be just to the people. That will end unemployment, that will end ignorance, not increase corruption. We need a government that will hold the corrupt accountable from 2003 until now." SMOKE RISING POLICE FORCES SMOKE RISING/BARRICADES BAGHDAD HIGHWAY AFTERMATH OF PROTESTS ON EMPTY ROADS EMPTY ROADS/PROTESTERS WALKING ON SIDE OF ROAD
- Embargoed: 18th October 2019 11:05
- Keywords: iraq protests death toll rising police fire live ammunition corruption reform elections
- Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- City: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
- Reuters ID: LVA001AZOM6VB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:The death toll from three days of anti-government protests in Iraq climbed to 44, police and medical sources told Reuters on Friday (October 4).
The largest number of casualties occurred in the southern city of Nassiriya, where 18 people were killed, followed by the capital Baghdad where the death toll stood at 16, they said.
The protests, in which hundreds of people have also been injured, began over unemployment and poor services but have escalated into calls for a change of government and pose one of the country's biggest security challenges in years.
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