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Hundreds protest in Baghdad after deadly attack on tourist resort

Men react as mourners carry the coffin of a victim, who was killed in an attack on a mountain resort in Iraq's northern province Dohuk, during a funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, July 21, 2022. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

Hundreds of people protested in Baghdad on Thursday after an attack in northern Iraq killed nine people including a newly wed husband and a 1-year-old, a strike that Iraq blamed on Turkish forces but which Ankara denied carrying out.

The incident took place on Wednesday at a summer resort near the northern Iraqi town of Zakho close to the border with Turkey, in a region where Turkish forces have waged a campaign against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants.

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