Protests over Power Cuts Erupt in Basra

World | August 10, 2003, Sunday // 00:00

Scattered protests over fuel shortages and power cuts caused by intense heat erupted in the southern city of Basra for a second day Sunday, and an American soldier died of heatstroke as temperatures crept higher than 120. Also Sunday, attacks on U.S. forces in Baghdad and Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit wounded four American soldiers, the military said. A journalist for an Arab satellite station also was reported wounded.

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