Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says the security situation in Baghdad is now "under control"', a day after thousands of angry protestors stormed the parliament building calling for political reform.
The activists broke into Baghdad's high security Green Zone on Saturday (local time) and entered the parliament building after MPs again failed to approve new ministers.
Jubilant crowds, most of them supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, invaded the main session hall, shouting slogans glorifying their leader and claiming that they had rooted out corruption.
The capital was already on high alert for a major Shiite pilgrimage — participants in which were targeted in a bombing that killed 23 people on Saturday — but extra security measures were taken after the Green Zone break-in.
