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schema:articleBody	Seven people were shot dead on Wednesday in Iraq's shrine city of Najaf after supporters of powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr raided an anti-government protest camp, medics told AFP. All the dead suffered bullet wounds to the head or chest, the medics said, and dozens more were wounded. Tensions have been high at protest camps across the country since Sadr backed prime minister-designate Mohammad Allawi, who was appointed on February 1. Sadr had initially backed the regime change demonstrations when rallies first erupted in October but split with them over the selection of Allawi. The core protest movement sees the premier-designate as being too close to the political elite. Sadrists, typically identified by their blue caps, have stormed protest camps and harassed rival, mostly-young demonstrators, who have taken up chants against Sadr. On Wednesday, Sadr supporters flooded the main anti-regime tent city in Najaf and skirmishes erupted before security forces intervened to separate the two sides. In the melee, tents where protesters had slept for weeks as part of their sit-ins were burned down. Allawi took to Twitter to comment on the bloodshed, saying: "The painful events taking place now push me to ask my brothers in the current government to fullfil their tasks by protecting the protesters." He has until March 2 to form his own cabinet, which will be subject to a vote of confidence by parliament. In Diwaniyah, another protest hotspot, hundreds took to the streets on Wednesday to condemn Sadr and his supporters, AFP's correspondent there reported. Violence broke out earlier this week in the southern city of Kut, where one protester was stabbed to death after Sadrists attacked an anti-government rally there. Sadr then apparently tried to calm the tensions, urging his followers through a Twitter post to focus solely on making sure schools and government buildings shut by months of protests would reopen. "The 'blue hats' have a duty to peacefully secure schools and service centres, not to defend me or suppress the voices that chant against me," he said. str/sbh/mjg/dwo
schema:headline	Seven killed as rival protesters clash in Iraq's Najaf: medics
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