Wave of Iraq violence kills over 200 THE latest violence in Iraq has pushed the death toll from four days of attacks to more than 200, officials say. The unrest has also wounded more than 300 people. Confirmation of the toll follows a warning by United Nations envoy Martin Kobler that Iraq is at a "crossroads," and his calling for restraint. "I call on the conscience of all religious and political leaders not to let anger win over peace, and to use their wisdom, because the country is at a crossroads," Kobler said in a statement on Friday. Kobler spoke a day after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned that the country was in danger of returning to "sectarian civil war." The trouble began on Tuesday when security forces moved in against anti-government protesters near the Sunni Arab northern town of Hawijah, sparking clashes that left 53 people dead. A wave of subsequent unrest, much but not all of it apparently linked to the Hawijah clashes, killed dozens more people and by Thursday 182 people had been killed and 292 wounded. The protest-related violence is the deadliest so far linked to demonstrations that broke out in Sunni areas of the Shi'ite-majority country more than four months ago. The protesters have called for the resignation of Maliki, a Shi'ite, and railed against authorities for allegedly targeting their community.