Bloodshed at Baghdad protest marches

Gunmen fired on supporters of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, killing one person and wounding two others as they made their way to protests planned for the second anniversary of Baghdad’s fall to US-led troops.

In the poor New Baghdad neighbourhood, meanwhile, four children were killed yesterday when they came across explosives while digging through garbage for metal scraps, witnesses and police said. It was unclear what caused the blast.