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Iran: Nine people shot dead as protests erupt in Pakistan, Iraq

Naija News • 22h ago
Iran: Nine people shot dead as protests erupt in Pakistan, Iraq
No fewer than nine protesters were shot and killed when crowds breached the outer wall of the US consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi, after news of the US and Israeli strikes on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei emerged. DAILY POST reports that the protesters shouted ‘death to Israel and death to America.’ In Iraq, however, police fired tear gas and stun grenades to scatter hundreds of pro-Iranian protesters who had gathered outside the Green Zone in the capital Baghdad, where the US embassy is located. Pakistan and Iraq are said to have the largest Shi’ite Muslim populations after Iran. A local government spokesman, Sukhdev Assardas Hemnani, said in Karachi, protesters were pushed back from the consulate after they breached the outer security layer. Hemnan...
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