BASRA, IRAQ ¨C Five protesters were killed and 16 more were injured during a second day of clashes with security forces in Iraq¡¯s main southern city Basra, local health and security sources said.
Twenty-two members of the security forces were also wounded, some by a hand grenade, the sources said, in some of the worst unrest reported during months of protests sweeping the long neglected south, heartland of Iraq¡¯s Shiite Muslim majority.
Protesters are angry over electricity outages during the hot Iraqi summer, a lack of jobs and proper government services and entrenched corruption.
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