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A car-bombing Saturday in southeastern Baghdad killed at least 24 people wounded at least 42 others, according to police and hospital officials.
Hundreds of supporters of Muslim cleric Moqtada Al Sadr stormed into Baghdad’s Green Zone on Saturday and entered the parliament building after lawmakers failed to convene for a vote on overhauling the government, two Reuters witnesses said.
The protesters, who had gathered outside the heavily fortified district housing government buildings and many foreign embassies, crossed a bridge over the Tigris River chanting, “The cowards ran away!” in apparent reference to departing lawmakers.
There were no reports of clashes with security forces. But special forces personnel from Iraq’s army were dispatched with armoured vehicles to protect sensitive sites, two security officials said. No curfew has been imposed, they said.
A United Nations spokesman and four Western diplomats based inside the Green Zone said their compounds were locked down, denying local reports that staff were being evacuated.
An online video showed protesters attacking a white, armoured SUV with sticks and other objects. In a separate video, they beat a man in a grey suit.
JUST IN:1000s of Muqtada Al-Sadr supporters storm into Baghdad's GreenZone & Parliament protesting cabinet-Reshuffle pic.twitter.com/oySQMxoVu9
— Press TV (@PressTV) April 30, 2016
Hundreds of protesters storm Baghdad's Green Zone, enter parliamenthttps://t.co/eUnw6HBN1LA Kurdish peshmerga guard at a checkpoint said the protesters surged in after security forces pulled back from an external checkpoint in an unsuccessful effort to secure the parliament building. They had not been searched before entering the Green Zone, he said.
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) April 30, 2016
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