At least 45 demonstrators have been shot dead by security forces and 152 others have been injured amid increasing protest violence in the south of Iraq and the country’s capital of Baghdad, local media reported, citing sources.
The death toll from three-days of mass anti-government protests in Iraq has risen to 34, with hundreds of others wounded as authorities extended acurfew to several southern cities, security officials and activists said on Thursday.
At least 34 people were wounded after a car bombing targeted the police district six (PD6) headquarters here on Wednesday.
Five people were killed and 10 others were injured in three coordinated blasts that hit Kabul on Thursday.
At least eight people, including three police personnel, were killed and 25 others were wounded in the suicide bombing outside the Data Darbar shrine here on Wednesday morning, according to Punjab Police spokesperson.
Dust storm, followed by rainfall, which hit Lahore, has claimed lives of at least four people and left thirteen others wounded.
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