Iraqis, holding and throwing empty water bottles and waving banners, protest outside the municipality building in Baghdad, Iraq to call attention to water shortages in the capital city, Sunday, June 26 2005. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
	Iraqis, holding empty water bottles and banners, protest outside the municipality building in Baghdad, Iraq to call attention to water shortages in the capital city, Sunday, June 26 2005. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
	An Iraqi national guard and Iraqi police run after police shot at demonstrators in the central Iraqi town of Samawa June 28, 2005. Police opened fire on the crowd of demonstrators on Tuesday wounding seven protesters, including one man who was shot in the head, witnesses and hospital staff said. Photo by Mohammed Ameen/Reuters

SAMAWA, Iraq, June 28 (Reuters) - Police opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators in the southern Iraqi city of Samawa on Tuesday wounding seven protesters, including one man who was shot in the head, witnesses and hospital staff said.

Four policemen were also injured by stones, doctors said.

Nearly 2,000 unemployed Iraqis were demonstrating in central Samawa because they had not been given jobs in the police in Samawa, 270 km (170 miles) south of Baghdad.

Protesters threw stones and police opened fire, first with warning shots and then shots aimed into the crowd, Reuters reporter Hamid Fadhil said from the scene.

Reuters photographer Mohammed Amin said he saw four demonstrators wounded, one of them hit by a bullet to the head.