At least 45 people were killed by security forces in Iraq on Thursday on the deadliest day since mass protests in OPEC’s second-largest oil producer began in early October. According to police and medical sources who spoke to Reuters, at least 29 people were shot dead in the city of Nassiriya in Iraq’s south, after security forces opened fire on protesters blocking a bridge in the city. Since the beginning of the protests in Iraq in early October, more than 320 people have died . The anti-government protests in Iraq continued in November, with protesters blocking roads leading to five oil fields in the southern Iraqi province of Basra, which is home to the biggest oil fields and the key oil export terminal in OPEC’s second-largest producer. Protests have quickly spread from Baghdad to the southern city of Basra, where people are angry that the massive oil revenues the […]