BFF-31 Rockets fired at Iraq’s Basra airport: security sources

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Rockets fired at Iraq’s Basra airport: security sources

BASRA, Iraq, Sept 8, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Unidentified assailants fired four
rockets at Iraq’s Basra airport on Saturday, security sources said, as the
death toll from several days of protests over poor public services climbed to
12.

The main southern city has been rocked by protests since Tuesday, with
demonstrators setting ablaze the government building, the Iranian consulate
and the offices of militias and political parties close to Tehran after the
hospitalisation of 30,000 people who had drunk polluted water.

It was not clear who fired the rockets, which struck inside the airport’s
perimeter, the sources said.

Airport staff said flights were not affected.

The US consulate in Basra is located near the airport.

BSS/AFP/FI/ 1514 hrs