Deaths and arrests in southern power protests
Protestors throughout south Iraq are angry at another summer with inadequate electricity, with some threatening an oil project at Majnoon.
Protestors outside the Majnoon oil field in Basra province on July 16 demand electricity from Royal Dutch Shell. (ALI ABU IRAQ/Iraq Oil Report)
BASRA - At least one protestor was killed in a series of armed clashes with police over persistent power outages in Basra, as demonstrations across Iraq’s sweltering southern provinces continued for a second day, and threatened to halt an oil project in the province’s supergiant Majnoon field.
A young man was killed by police during protests in Basra’s al-Madayna district, just south of the West Qurna 2 oil field in the north of the province, said a senior Basra Operations Command official. Four policemen were also injured in clashes late Thursday and early Friday.
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