BAGHDAD: Several hundred Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad Friday to vent their anger at the chronic electricity shortages, which they blamed on government corruption.

"Thieves, thieves, thieves," chanted the crowd, mostly middle-class Baghdadis, as they marched before dusk in the centre of the capital.

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