Iraqi protesters throw stones, battle teargas in Baghdad
The clashes come a day after protesters and security forces threw molotov cocktails and stones at each other, while on Sunday (November 24), live ammunition was fired at protesters in Baghdad and several cities in southern Iraq, killing at least nine people and wounding dozens of others, police and medical sources said.
Anti-government protests erupted in early October and have swollen into the largest demonstrations since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Protesters are demanding the overthrow of a political class seen as corrupt and serving foreign powers while many Iraqis languish in poverty without jobs, healthcare or education. Deadly use of live ammunition, tear gas and stun grenades against mostly
unarmed demonstrators have stoked the unrest.
A Reuters tally of the dead as given by security and medical sources shows at least 339 people have been killed, however, Iraq's state news agency has reported that number as much lower.
