BAGHDAD: Protesters set fire to Sweden's embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad early on Thursday (Jul 20), an AFP journalist said, ahead of a planned burning of a Quran in Sweden. Swedish authorities approved an assembly to be held later on Thursday outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, where organisers p
BAGHDAD: Protesters set fire to Sweden's embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad early on Thursday , an AFP journalist said, ahead of a planned burning of a Quran in Sweden.
Some protesters raised copies of the Quran into the air, while others held portraits of Mohamed al-Sadr, an important religious cleric and the father of Moqtada Sadr. Sweden's foreign ministry told AFP that its embassy staff in Baghdad were"safe" following the incident. It was not immediately clear whether the embassy was empty at the time of the attack or if staff had been evacuated.Iraq's foreign ministry condemned the embassy torching and called on security forces to identify those responsible.
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