14-07-2025
One killed as Iraqi Kurds protest power cuts
IRBIL: A man was killed in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region late Sunday during protests against power cuts, residents and a medical source told in the Rawandz region, northeast of Kurdistan's capital Irbil, said protesters had taken to the streets and blocked a main highway leading to a border crossing with forces intervened to open the road, leading to clashes, they said, with the demonstrations ending shortly after.A source at the area's Ashti hospital said 'the body of a man who was killed by gunshot arrived at the hospital,' with locals saying he was involved in the circumstances around the shooting were not immediately known, but a protester told AFP that 'security forces shot' his relative, a 45-year-old father of region's interior ministry also said on Monday that 'clashes during the protest' had resulted in one civilian death, adding it would launch a probe into the northern region of Kurdistan has long promoted itself as a haven of relative stability in an otherwise volatile week, regional authorities announced that more than 30 percent of the Kurdistan region now had 24-hour, state-provided vast areas still suffer from long power cuts, forcing many households to rely on private Iraq's abundant oil and gas reserves, years of conflict have devastated its national grid struggles to meet demand, leaving most areas reliant on imported energy — mostly from neighboring Iran — and subject to frequent power cuts, especially during the blistering summer.
