<I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: 28 Killed; Attack on Baghdad Protests
Updated at 5:20 p.m. EST, December 7, 2019
At least 28 people were killed, and 108 more wounded in recent violence:
Protest News:
In Baghdad, gunmen killed 25 people near Khalani Square. About 105 people were wounded in a second day of direct attacks on Baghdad demonstrators. Apparently, several may have been killed at a building overlooking the protests. Demonstrators had been camped in the uninhabited building for weeks, when armed men in pick-up trucks arrived to forcibly evict the demonstrators from the building. Separately, a photographer was kidnapped after covering the protest at Tahrir Square.
In other violence:
in Kirkuk A policeman was killed and two more were injured when their vehicle was blasted by a roadside bomb. A separate bomb wounded a civilian.
Two militants was killed in Khabbaz village.
