NSTsports Seven more killed in unrelenting Iraq protests
The leaders, sources told AFP, also agreed to put an end to rallies rocking Iraq’s capital and its south since Oct 1 and demanding an overhaul of the political system.
Three demonstrators died from bullet wounds and a fourth when a tear gas canister pierced his skull, medics and police sources told AFP. When the protests first erupted in October, Sadr threw his weight behind them while the Hashed backed the government. The source also told AFP Soleimani met Mohammed Ridha Sistani, the son of Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.
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