Protesters storm Swedish embassy in Baghdad ahead of Stockholm Koran burning

Protesters storm Swedish embassy in Baghdad ahead of Stockholm Koran burning
Protesters scale a wall at the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on Thursday (Ali Jabar/AP)

Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Koran stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, breaking into the compound and lighting a small fire.

Online videos showed demonstrators at the diplomatic post waving flags and signs showing the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr ahead of a planned burning of the Islamic holy book in Stockholm on Thursday.

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