At least 23 supporters of Iraq's Shia leader Muqtada al Sadr have been killed as fighting between rival forces raged for a second day after the cleric's resignation from politics
Cleric Muqtada al Sadr derives power from his ability to mobilise and control his large grassroots following, but with his stated exit from politics, he has implicitly given them the freedom to act as they see fit.
On Tuesday morning, medics updated the toll of Sadr supporters killed to 23, with some 380 others injured – some with bullet wounds and others suffering tear gas inhalation.
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