Angry protesters in the southern Iraqi city of Basra stormed a government building on Wednesday and and set fire to it.
Security forces guarding the provincial council building fired tear gas and live ammunition at stone-throwing protesters.

Anger in Iraq’s oil-rich city of Basra and other centres in the southern Shiite heartland has been brewing since July over endemic corruption, soaring joblessness and poor public services.

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