Iraqi PM says will take action if any citizen is attacked in Kurdistan Region
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday he would take action if any citizen was attacked in the country’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, state television reporter.
“We would not stand idly by if any citizen were attacked,” the broadcaster quoted him as saying in a weekly news conference, REUTERS REPORTED.
Five people were killed and more than 80 wounded, local officials said earlier, as Kurdish protesters angered by years of austerity and unpaid public-sector salaries took to the streets in a second day of violent unrest amid tensions with Baghdad.
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