A police vehicle is seen in a street after clashes between Iraqi security forces and followers of Iraq's Shi'ite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi, in the holy city of Karbala, southwest of Baghdad, July 2, 2014. Up to 45 people were killed in clashes between Iraqi security forces and followers of a radical cleric in the holy Shi'ite city of Karbala on Wednesday, security sources said, signalling divisions among Shi'ite factions as a Sunni insurgency rages. The clashes erupted when police and army personnel tried to arrest Shi'ite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi around midnight on Tuesday in the southern city of Karbala, an Interior Ministry intelligence officer and a police witness told Reuters. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed (IRAQ - Tags: CRIME LAW CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)
