In clashes between security forces and protesters who protested against the results of the legislative elections.
At least two people died and more than a hundred were injured this Friday in Baghdad in clashes between security forces and protesters who protested against the results of the legislative elections on October 10, according to various police and sanitary sources.
"A group of protesters who protested by the electoral results congregated this afternoon in front of the entrance of the green zone (...) And they tried to enter "in this fortified area that concentrates a good number of government buildings and foreign embassies, Colonel Imad Raed, of the Ministry of Interior, told Efe of the Ministry of Interior.
The participants in the protest - added - threw stones against the security forces, so they closed all the entrances to the green area and fired (bullets) in the air and tear gas to disperse them.
Raed explained that two people died during the incidents, although the Ministry of Health reported shortly after a statement that its hospital institutions had received 125 injured, 27 of them civilians and the rest members of the security forces, but did not registerno deceased or firearm wounds.
A source of the forces of the order that asked not to be identified denied that he had shot against the protesters, supporters several parties that challenge the results of the elections a month ago.
"We don't shoot, but we hear shots.Probably a third shot with the aim of provoking a crisis "between protesters and security forces, said the informant.
Iraqi prime minister, Mustafa al Kazemi, ordered to open an investigation into these incidents, according to a statement from the security information cell, while the Fatah block, one of the drivers of the demonstration, asked "to punish those who have given those who have givenOrders to shoot the peaceful protesters ".
Several Iraqi games reject the electoral results on October 10, in which the sadristic block of the influentof protest in front of the green zone.
Among the main opposites to the scrutiny announced by the Electoral Commission is Fatah Block, the political arm of the Iraqi militias of the popular crowd 'alliance' de facto 'in the armed forces after participating in the territorial defeat of the terrorist group Islamic State.
This alliance, which was the second most voted in the previous parliamentarians, in 2018, lost almost two thirds of the seats obtained then and stayed with just seventeen.