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Iraq PM orders probe after 2 protesters killed in clashes

by Associated Press
| July 27, 2020 10:27 AM

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister said Monday he had ordered an investigation into the killing of two anti-government protesters, saying security forces were not authorized to fire “a single bullet” toward the demonstrators. Twenty-one protesters were also wounded in the overnight clashes.

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