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Rockets fired at Iraq’s Basra airport: security sources
BASRA, Iraq, Sept 8, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Unidentified assailants fired four
rockets at Iraq’s Basra airport on Saturday, security sources said, as the
death toll from several days of protests over poor public services climbed to
12.
The main southern city has been rocked by protests since Tuesday, with
demonstrators setting ablaze the Iranian consulate, government building and
the offices of militias and political parties close to Tehran after the
hospitalisation of 30,000 people who had drunk polluted water.
BSS/AFP/MR/ 1450 hrs