Militants' car bomb kills 10 as escalation continues
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March 18, 2013, Monday
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AN al-Qaida-linked group claimed a brazen attack on a ministry and a bombing in south Iraq left 10 people dead yesterday as a study said at least 112,000 civilians were killed since the 2003 US-led invasion.
Militants struck yesterday, detonating a car bomb at a bus station near the outskirts of the southern port city of Basra, killing 10 people and wounding 16, the head of the provincial council's security committee said.
A suicide bomber also wounded three police north of Baghdad, a police officer and a medical source said.
UK-based Iraq Body Count, published a study which concluded that at least 112,000 civilians were killed in the 10 years since the invasion.
It said that, including combatants on all sides of the decade-long conflict as well as yet-undocumented fatalities, the figure could rise as high as 174,000.
"This conflict is not yet history," it said in its report, which put the number of civilian deaths since March 20, 2003 at between 112,017 and 122,438.
"It remains entrenched and pervasive, with a clear beginning but no foreseeable end, and very much a part of the present in Iraq."
IBC said that, over the years, Baghdad had been, and still is, the deadliest region, accounting for 48 percent of all deaths, while the conflict was bloodiest between 2006 and 2008.
It noted that violence remained high, with annual civilian deaths of between 4,000 and 5,000, roughly equivalent to the total number of coalition forces killed from 2003 up to the US military withdrawal in December 2011, at 4,804.
In addition to Baghdad, the most violent regions were the northern and western provinces.
Militants struck yesterday, detonating a car bomb at a bus station near the outskirts of the southern port city of Basra, killing 10 people and wounding 16, the head of the provincial council's security committee said.
A suicide bomber also wounded three police north of Baghdad, a police officer and a medical source said.
UK-based Iraq Body Count, published a study which concluded that at least 112,000 civilians were killed in the 10 years since the invasion.
It said that, including combatants on all sides of the decade-long conflict as well as yet-undocumented fatalities, the figure could rise as high as 174,000.
"This conflict is not yet history," it said in its report, which put the number of civilian deaths since March 20, 2003 at between 112,017 and 122,438.
"It remains entrenched and pervasive, with a clear beginning but no foreseeable end, and very much a part of the present in Iraq."
IBC said that, over the years, Baghdad had been, and still is, the deadliest region, accounting for 48 percent of all deaths, while the conflict was bloodiest between 2006 and 2008.
It noted that violence remained high, with annual civilian deaths of between 4,000 and 5,000, roughly equivalent to the total number of coalition forces killed from 2003 up to the US military withdrawal in December 2011, at 4,804.
In addition to Baghdad, the most violent regions were the northern and western provinces.
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