81 hurt in Iraq clashes with protesters

Eighty-one people were wounded, nine by live fire, in a second day of clashes between protesters and security forces in Iraq's northern city of Sulaimaniyah Monday, a medical official said. "Eighty-one people were wounded, nine of them by bullets. Security forces personnel are among the wounded," said Dr Raykot Hama Rashid, director of the main hospital in Sulaimaniyah, the second largest city in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan province.
The clashes took place in Peeramard Street in central Sulaimaniyah, which has seen near daily demonstrations since mid-February, and where Rashid had said 31 people were injured on Sunday, nine of them by bullets.