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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 28 April: 17 dead

Baghdad: bomb kills Sahwa member; roadside bomb strikes pick-up truck, kills 1; roadside bomb strikes minibus, kills 1; mortars kill a woman and a child, Karadat Mariam; mortar hits taxi, kills driver; 6 bodies.

Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill policeman; 2 killed in clashes.

Basra
Basra: Sadr official shot dead.

Diyala
Sahwa member killed defending village attacked by gunmen.

Sunday 27 April: 71 dead

Baghdad: suicide car bomber kills 2, Shaab; 1 dies in clashes, Bayaa; mortars kill 2 in Amil and Kadhimiya; car bomb kills 1, Mansour; car bomb kills policeman, Harthiya; 6 bodies.

Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 3 in separate incidents.

Salahuddin
Tikrit: woman killed by car bomb; 2 bodies.
Samarra: woman killed by car bomb.

Qadissiya
Diwaniya: gunmen kill policeman.

Diyala
Al-Guba: 50 bodies found in mass grave.

Saturday 26 April: 31 dead

Baghdad: suicide car bomber kills 2 Sahwa members, Amiriya; gunmen kill shop owner, Mansour; clashes between US forces and locals result in 8 deaths (2 of the dead children), Sadr City; 5 bodies.

Ninewa
Hatra: gunmen kill 2 policemen.
Mosul: suicide car bomber kills 3; suicide car bomber kills 6 at police checkpoint.
Bueshiqa: 2 bodies found.

Diyala
Sheikh-Saad: gunmen kill policeman.

Salahuddin
Baiji: body is found.

Friday 25 April: 25 dead

Baghdad: Us air strikes kill 7, Sadr City; 2 killed by US forces, Husseiniya; roadside bomb kills 1, Yusufiya; 2 bodies.

Salahuddin
Tikrit: policeman is blown up by bomb in his car.

Anbar
Falluja: bomb in mosque kills 1.

Babil
Iskandariya: gunmen kill 1; gunmen kill 2 in separate incident.

Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill fisherman; gunmen kill policeman; gunmen shoot dead husband and wife; 2 bodies found decapitated.

Basra
Basra: child dies after hand grenade is thrown at wedding party.
Qurmal-Ali: gunmen kill journalist on his way to work.

Thursday 24 April: 18 dead

Baghdad: bomb in supermarket kills 3, Mansour; car bomb kills 1, Zayouna; car bomb kills 1, Karrada; gunmen kill 1, Harthiya; gunmen kill traffic policeman, Camp Sara; 3 bodies.

Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill policeman; roadside bomb kills 2; gunmen kill former army officer and his brother.

Kirkuk
Kirkuk: roadside bomb kills 3.

Wednesday 23 April: 38 dead

Baghdad: 15 killed by US forces in Husseiniya and Sadr City; rocket hits school, kills 2 teenage boys, Sadr City; 4 bodies; 3 bodies, Mahmudiya.

Ninewa
Mosul: car bomb kills 1; suicide bomber kills 2; gunmen kill 1; 1 policeman dies in clashes; 2 bodies.

Diyala
Baquba: 1 Sahwa killed by gunmen.
Muqdadiya: 4 bodies.

Salahuddin
Tikrit: 2 bodies.

Tuesday 22 April: 51 dead

Baghdad: gunmen kill 1, Shoala; car bomb kills 1, Mansour; mortars kill 6, New Baghdad; US air strike kills 8, Sadr City; 3 bodies.

Anbar
Ramadi: suicide truck bomber kills 10 at checkpoint.

Ninewa
Mosul: car bomb kills 1; 3 bodies.

Diyala
Jalawla: suicide bomber kills 18 at police station.

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