Angry Iraqis torch Swedish embassy over second Quran burning in Stockholm

STORY: Angry Iraqis torch Swedish embassy over second Quran burning in Stockholm DATELINE: July 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:22 LOCATION: Baghdad CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of riot police standing in front of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad 2. various of the damaged Swedish embassy building in Baghdad STORYLINE: Hundreds of Iraqis stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad at dawn Thursday and set fire to the building after a planned burning of the Quran in Sweden. An Interior Ministry source told Xinhua that the demonstrators climbed the fences of the embassy and entered the building, protesting the latest incident of burning the Quran and the Iraqi flag in front of the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm by the same person who burned the Quran three weeks ago. Iraqi security forces and fire engines rushed to the Swedish embassy to disperse demonstrators away from the embassy building, and fire engines managed later to put out the fire, the source said. Meanwhile, the Iraqi foreign ministry condemned the arso