Swedish embassy in Baghdad torched after protest over quran burning
Smoke was rising from the Swedish embassy building and dozens of demonstrators were still on the scene.
Protesters set fire to Sweden‘s embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad early Thursday, an AFP journalist said, ahead of a planned burning of a Koran in Sweden.
Smoke was rising from the Swedish embassy building and dozens of demonstrators were still on the scene, while large numbers of Iraqi riot police had been deployed, an AFP correspondent said.
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