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Gunmen torch Iraqi TV station that showed protest

Gunmen burst into a Kurdish television station in northern Iraq on Sunday, shooting up the equipment and setting fire to the building, apparently in retaliation for footage they aired earlier in the week of a deadly protest, station officials said.

 

Later Sunday, about 2,000 demonstrators took to the streets of this Kurdish city, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, for a fourth consecutive day to demand political and economic reforms from the ruling parties that control the region. Police and hospital officials said at least four people were injured - two of them by bullets - after Kurdish forces fired in the air to disperse the crowd. (AP)

 


פרסום ראשון: 02.20.11, 19:09