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Iraq Body Count (IBC) is an analytical project, not a news portal. Our procedure is to collect and reconcile every available, distinct report about each incident. For larger events, stories may run into the dozens and continue to emerge for days or weeks. This, and the inexorable rise in daily violent incidents, means that there is a considerable gap between the initial reporting of events and their first appearance in the IBC database.

However, we obtain an early impression of events within about 48 hours of first reports. This page provides our news gatherer's account of such recent events, but please keep in mind that these are not our final database entries. Rather, they should be considered an early update on civilian casualties.

Recent Events

Monday 5 May: 24 dead

Baghdad: US air strike kills 6, Sadr City; US air strike kills 5 (inc. child with parents), Amil; rocket kills 2, Rasheed; 4 bodies.

Kirkuk
Kirkuk: roadside bomb kills policeman.

Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen storm building, kill 3 women; gunmen kill 1 civilian in the street; body found.

Babil
Hilla: gunmen kill former Baath commander.

Sunday 4 May: 25 dead

Baghdad: roadside bomb kills traffic policeman, Yarmouk; roadside bomb kills another civilian; gunmen kill academic, Al Adel; US bombing kills 5, including 3 children, Sadr City; 3 bodies.

Diyala
Wajihiya: roadside bomb kills 1 Sahwa member.
Khanaqin: raodside bomb kills child.

Salahuddin
Balad: bomb kills 2 women.

Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill journalist; gunmen kill 2 civilians in separate incidents; roadside bomb kills 1; 3 bodies.

Basra
Al Fau: 3 fishermen killed by Iranian coastguard.

Saturday 3 May: 27 dead

Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 1, Al-Shurta; US air strike kills 3 boys; 4 bodies.

Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 2 policemen; roadside bomb kills 1; 1 body found.

Salahuddin
Shirqat: child is killed by mortar.

Diyala
Khanaqin: child is killed by bomb; communist party member is shot dead.

Anbar
Rumana: 12 beheaded bodies are found (believed to be policemen and Sahwa members abducted earlier).

Friday 2 May: 9 dead

Baghdad: mortar kills 1, Salhiya; 3 bodies.

Diyala
Muqdadiya: gunmen kill 2 Sahwa members.

Anbar
Aqur Quf: car bomb kills 3 relatives (son, brother and nephew) of Sahwa member.

Thursday 1 May: 65 dead

Baghdad: US air strikes kill 2 women and 2 children, Sadr City; car bomb kills 9 civilians, including a child, Camp Sara; 5 bodies.

Diyala
Balad Ruz: suicide bombers kill 45 at wedding, including the bride and groom.

Kirkuk
Hawija: bicycle bomb kills 2.

Wednesday 30 April: 12 dead

Baghdad: 2 die by US fire, Abu Dsheer; 1 killed by mortars, Rahmaniya; 4 bodies.

Kirkuk
Al-Abbasi: roadside bomb kills 2 Sahwa members.

Wassit
Kut: gunmen kill woman at home.

Salahuddin
Tikrit: 2 bodies found.

APRIL TOTAL: 1,334, INC. 66 CHILDREN
136 CIVILIANS WERE KILLED BY US FORCES

Tuesday 29 April: 63 dead

Baghdad: gunmen kill 1, Atifiya; rocket kills 2, New Baghdad; 30 (inc. 12 children) die in US air strikes, Sadr City*; bomb kills 1, Shaljiya; 5 bodies.

Diyala
Abu Saida: suicide bomber kills 2 Sahwa members.
Jalawla: gunmen kill 3.
Sadiya: gunmen kill 1.
Muqdadiya: suicide bomber kills 2 policemen; gunmen kill 2.
Qazamiya: bodies of 6 academics are found a week after being kidnapped.

Kirkuk
Kirkuk: 4 killed in two bomb attacks; 2 bodies.

Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill policeman; 1 body found.


50 unidentified bodies are buried in Baquba.

*They were Jaleel (65) and Hanounah (60) Zaydan, their sons Samir (32) and Amir (29), their 2 wives (one of them 9 months pregnant) and their 4 children -killed when their house was hit by a US bomb. Also killed were 6 rescuers killed after a second bomb struck the house. Next door, Um Aseel Ali lost her husband and 3 sons (aged 6, 4 and 2) when another US bomb struck. Yet another US bomb hit a house in the neighbourhood, killing Samir and his 4-year-old son Sajad and 2-year-old daughter Ayat. Another 5 civilians died in another US bombing later in the afternoon, including 2-year-old Ali Hussein. Also, in yet another bombing, 2-year-old Moqtada Raed lost his life, due to a shrapnel wound to his thigh.

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