• New clashes break out between demonstrators and security forces in Baghdad – live ammunition along with tear gas is utilized to disperse crowds in Sadr City, a suburb of Baghdad. Eight protesters are killed, and twenty-five are wounded.
• Eight party buildings and fifty-one public and private institutions are set on fire during the protests, along with two police checkpoints
• The government designates those killed as “martyrs,” granting their families special benefits.

Image: Demonstrators gesture as they block the road with burning tires during a protest over unemployment, corruption and poor public services, in Baghdad, Iraq October 2, 2019. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani