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9 killed in Pak protests

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9 killed in Pak protests

PAKISTANI police on Sunday clashed with protesters who breached the outer wall of the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, leaving nine people dead, following news of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran that killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ​Khamenei. 

Pro-Iranian protesters also gathered outside the Green Zone in the Iraqi ‌capital Baghdad, ‌where the U.S. Embassy is located.

Pakistan has the second-largest Shi'ite Muslim population after Iran. Iraq ​has the third-largest.

In Pakistan's southern city of Karachi, protesters had been pushed back from the consulate, a spokesman for ⁠the local government said, after they set a vehicle ablaze outside the main gate and clashed ⁠with police.

At least nine people were killed in those clashes, police said. Reporters heard the sound of gunfire and saw teargas being ​fired in streets around the ⁠compound. Video footage showed a fire beneath a nearby bridge. No casualties were reported in the street clashes.

The ⁠U.S. Consulate in ​Karachi and the U.S. Embassy Islamabad Press Office did ​not respond to requests for comment.

Large protests also occurred in ​other ‌parts of Pakistan. Protesters set fire to a United Nations office building in the northern city of Skardu, in the normally peaceful Shi'ite-majority Gilgit Baltistan region known for its Himalayan peaks popular with tourists.

"A large number ‌of protesters have gathered outside the U.N. office in GB and burned down the building," local government spokesperson Shabbir Mir said, adding that no casualties had been reported.

Earlier in the day in the central city of Lahore, hundreds of protesters gathered ​outside ​the U.S. consulate. There were some small-scale clashes with police ​but no reports of violence.

"Some of the protesters tried to damage ⁠the security gate, hundreds of yards away from the Consulate. However, police stopped them without use of force," said Aqeel Raza, an eyewitness.

In the capital Islamabad, all roads leading to the red zone, which houses ​diplomatic missions and parliament, were blocked for traffic or any other public movement, police said.

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