Dozens of protesters stormed the Kuwaiti consulate in Basra on Tuesday, tearing down the Kuwaiti flag and raising the Iraqi one instead, Shafaq News reports.

According to the Iraqi outlet, security forces used tear gas in an attempt to disperse the crowd.

The demonstration erupted in response to a missile strike launched from Kuwaiti territory earlier in the day, which killed everyone present in a house in Khor al-Zubair, in the Safwan area in southern Basra.

The house, according to a security source cited by Shafaq News, belonged to an unnamed armed group and was being used as a gathering point at the time.