The Archive · 1927

FRACAS AT MUHARRAM CELEBRATION

Casualties in Fight Outside Baghdad Mosque

Baghdad, July 10.

Two Iraqi soldiers and thre civilians were Killed and 16 soldiers and 28 civilians injured in a frac Talay "outside the famous. Kadhimain Mosque.

crowd estimated at 100,000 was commemorating the historic martyr. doms connected with the Muharram, when the, soldiers, who were un med, somehow angered the crowd, section of whom attacked the troops, many civilian Arabs freely ing their knives. A very ugly situation was saved by the egolness: and tact of the Iraqi officer, WA led his men from the vicinity of the Subsequently the police restored order—Reuter.

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