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Friday, September 03, 2004

From Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)

‏Around 3,000 people killed, 11,600 injured in Iraq over the last four months
‏SEC-IRAQ-MINISTRY-VICTIMS ‏
Around 3,000 people killed, 11,600 injured in Iraq over the last four months‏
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BAGHDAD, Sept 3 (KUNA) -- The Iraqi health ministry announced on Friday ‏
‏that 2,956 people were killed and 11,669 others were injured due to clashes ‏
‏and terror attacks in several Iraqi cities over the last four months.‏
‏ A well-placed source at the ministry told the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) the ‏
‏victims fell during the period from April 5 to August 31 this year.‏
‏ ---There are 157 women and 125 children among the killed, while 508 women and ‏
‏310 children were injured during this period.‏
--- A total of 829 people including 57 women and 42 children were killed in the ‏
‏capital city, Baghdad alone, while the injured totaled 4,652 including 241 ‏
‏ women and 151 children.‏
‏ --- In the Moslem holy city of Najaf, 528 people were killed including nine ‏
‏women and three children, while 2,039 others were injured including 37 women ‏
‏and 27 children.‏
The case was worse in the Anbar governorate, to which the cities of Falluja ‏
‏and Ramadi belong; there were 620 persons killed including 33 women and 53 ‏
‏children and 1,441 injured including 88 women and 67 children.

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