One protester was killed early Monday in Iraq’s flash-point city of Nasiriyah, as gunmen stormed the square where anti-government demonstrators had been camped out for months.
The unidentified gunmen fired on protesters, killing one and wounding four others, a medical source said.
Hours later, determined protesters had rallied again and shut down two main bridges in the city, some 350 kilometers south of the capital Baghdad.
The main protest camp in the holy city of Najaf was also burned down overnight by unidentified gunmen, correspondences stated on Monday.
On Sunday evening, three Katyusha rockets slammed into the US embassy in the Iraqi capital, a security source said.
A senior Iraqi official and US diplomatic sources said one person was wounded.
However, no details were immediately available on whether it was a US national or an Iraqi member of staff at the mission.
