BBC
Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between members of a Shia cult and police in the southern Iraqi cities of Nasiriya and Basra, police say.
Street warfare erupted as members of the Soldiers of Heaven launched apparently co-ordinated assaults on police positions and fellow Shia.
The office of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said security forces had regained control of the two cities.
Clashes between the cult and Iraqi troops last year left 263 people dead.
The prime minister's office said a number of "heretics" had attacked processions of Shia marking the Ashura festival and tried to take control of a "government institution" in Basra in a "criminal plot".....
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