NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: One civilian was killed on Tuesday in a car bomb explosion in eastern Mosul, according to a security source.

 

 

"The car went off near a big mall this afternoon, killing one civilian," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, noting that casualties are most likely to increase.

 

 

Thousands of anti-premier protesters have taken to the streets in Sunni strongholds across Iraq, increasing fears that turmoil in neighboring Syria may help tip Iraq back into sectarian violence a year after the last US troops left.

 

 

In the northern city of Mosul, troops fired shots above the heads of hundreds of protesters trying to gather in a public square, and in the Sunni heartland province of Anbar, at least 5,000 people demonstrated peacefully.

 

 

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