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Baghdad's Green Zone hit by rockets after deadly clashes

Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr clash with Iraqi police forces following a demonstration at al-Tahrer square, central Baghdad, Iraq, 11 February 2017


A few rockets have hit the high security Green Zone in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, hours after conflicts at a challenge left no less than five dead.

There were no quick reports of losses in the Green Zone, which houses government structures and outside international safe havens in Baghdad.

Prior on Saturday, a great many dissenters, requesting appointive change, attempted to storm the zone.

Police let go poisonous gas. No less than 200 individuals are accounted for to be harmed.

The nonconformists, for the most part supporters of the Shia priest Moqtada al-Sadr, need changes to the discretionary commission that regulates races.

They say the commission is not free since every one of its individuals are connected to political gatherings.

Expert Sadr dissenters have entered the Green Zone amid past challenges.

It is not clear who terminated the rockets into the territory on Saturday.

Nonetheless, military authorities said a few Katyusha-style rockets appear to have been let go from the eastern area of Baladiyat, where Sadr is accounted for to have a great deal of supporters.

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