Sharjah 24 – AFP: Four persons were killed overnight after an ambush in the southern Iraqi city of Basra sparked clashes between rival factions, a security source said Thursday, days after deadly clashes in the capital.
Security forces deployed to quell the fighting, and Basra's governor Assad al-Eidani said on Thursday morning that the situation in the city was now "safe and under control".
The exchange of fire triggered panic only days after clashes between Sadr supporters and rival factions turned Baghdad's highly secure Green Zone into a battlefield.
Thirty Sadr supporters were killed in nearly 24 hours of clashes that erupted on Monday after they stormed the government headquarters in the Green Zone, which houses state institutions and foreign embassies.
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