BASRA, Iraq—Five protesters were killed and 16 more injured during a second day of clashes with security forces in Iraq’s main southern city Basra, Sept. 4, local health and security sources said.
It began on Sept. 3, when a man, Yasser Maki, was killed in demonstrations demanding the local administration fix a problem with the water system in Basra, Iraq’s second largest city. A funeral procession for Maki on Sept. 4 turned into a demonstration.
