Medical sources in Nasseria Governorate in the south of Iraq revealed that six protesters were killed on Thursday.
Protests broke in the southern and middle parts of Iraq since Tuesday according o locals in those districts.
Abdel Hussein Al Jabri, Director of Health Directorate at Al Nasseria in the southern Ze Qar Governorate, said that more than 56 people were injured in clashes with security forces there.
Toll of causalities rose to 27 people, among them two cops, within three days of clashes.
On the other hand, the Iraqi security forces dispersed a demonstration, hours earlier, and detained a number of protesters, as a military source said.
Safaa Kamel, a colonel from commandment of the middle sector of Euphrates, affirmed that riot units dispersed hundreds of demonstrators thronged in periphery of the government hall in the center of Al Dewanyah city.
Kamel pointed out that soldiers fired live ammunition and gas tears canisters at the protesters.
He added that the protesters are still in streets near the city’s center.
The angry demonstrators protest against rising hegemony of Iran in Iraq, corruption, unemployment and decline of public services.
The Iraqi government has imposed curfew in some southern governorates.
But the protesters decided to defy those procedures.
The government declared that a thousand officials suspected of crimes related to corruption were sacked according to statistics of the Higher Council for Fighting Corruption.
The official Iraqi news Agency said the council held a meeting chaired by Adel Abdel Mahdi, Prime Minister, on Tuesday.
The office of Abdel Mahdi released a statement says that the Premier contacted representatives of the protesters to mull over the legitimate demands of them.
He promised to meet them to restore natural life to the turbulent cities in the south and middle of the country.
Abdel Mahdi vowed to consider demands of the protesters
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