Clashes and clashes between Iraqi security forces and demonstrators continued in several parts, witnesses reported yesterday, the killing of two demonstrators in security disturbances and clashes in Baghdad, and a third protester was killed in Karbala, according to medical sources.
There were clashes between security forces and demonstrators between Hafez al-Qadi Square and al-Wathba in the center of al-Rasheed street in Baghdad. Dozens of tires to restrict the movement of troops ».
The witnesses said that «dozens of demonstrators were wounded, including a cameraman for an Iraqi television station, against the background of the demonstrators trying to control government buildings, where security forces used live bullets and tear gas to disperse them».
The demonstrators in the province of Basra cut off the main roads leading to the port of Umm Qasr and the port of Khor Al-Zubair, a fertilizer plant and storage and export complex and gas station to produce electricity.
Witnesses confirmed that thousands of demonstrators came from different areas, most of them students of schools, universities and institutes, and cut the bridge of the revolution in the center of Hilla, as security forces attacked the demonstrators' sites with tear gas, last night.
Hundreds of demonstrators blocked all roads linking Diwaniya and other governorates by burning tires. Dozens of demonstrators surrounded the Ahdab oilfield complex in Wasit province in search of job opportunities.