Sharjah24 - AFP: A curfew was lifted in the multi-ethnic Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday after protests turned violent and led to the deaths of four people.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani imposed the curfew on Saturday evening after rival protests, between Kurdish residents on one side and Turkmen and Arabs on the other, descended into deadly unrest despite a security presence.
Tensions had been brewing for nearly a week in Kirkuk, a northern city which has historically been disputed between the federal government in Baghdad and authorities in the autonomous Kurdistan region of the north.
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