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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 31 March: 30 dead

Baghdad: 3 bodies.

Anbar
Falluja: bicycle bomb kills 1.

Diyala
Balad Ruz: roadside bomb kills lorry driver.
Isamla: 4 Sahwa members killed by gunmen.
Muqdadiya: 2 of governor's bodyguards killed by roadside bomb.

Ninewa
Mosul: mortar kills 1; gunmen kill 1; roadside bomb kills 3; 2 bodies found.

Wassit
Suwayra: 5 bodies found.

Babil
Latifiya: 6 bodies.
Mahaweel: 1 body.

MARCH TOTAL: 1,378 civilians killed
52 of them children
80 killed by US/British forces

Sunday 30 March: 62 dead

Baghdad: mortars kill 7, Karrada; 2 policemen killed in clashes, Abu Dsheer; roadside bomb kills 3 policemen; 5 bodies.

Basra
Basra: air strike kills 3; security advisor to PM is killed.

Diyala
Wajihiya: US air strike kills 1.
Kanaan: civilian dies in clashes.
Saadiya: 2 bodyguards of Head of Diyala Council killed by roadside bomb.

Salahuddin
Bishkan: 6 policemen killed by gunmen.
Baiji: suicide car bomb kills 10 at Sahwa checkpoint.
Dhuluiya: gunmen attack patrol, kill 5 policemen.
Tikrit: suicide car bomber kills policeman.

Ninewa
Mosul: 2 policemen die in clashes; 3 policemen are killed at checkpoint; suicide car bomber kills civilian; 1 beheaded body is found.

Thi Qar
Nassiriya: mortars kill 5.

Saturday 29 March: 55 dead

Baghdad: roadside bomb kills policeman, Amil; 2 bodies.

Basra
Basra: US air strike kills 8, a child included; rockets strike police station, kill 4; roadside bomb kills 2 bodyguards.

Diyala
Khan Bani Saad: mortars kill 3 members of the same family.
Al-Atheem: US air strike kills 4 (parents and 2 children).
Muqdadiya: 14 bodies found in mass grave.

Anbar
Garam: suicide car bomber kills 2 children; another suicide car bomber kills 2 policemen.

Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 2 policemen shopping at market.

Wassit
Kut: 3 die in clashes.

Karbala
Karbala: 2 policemen die in clashes.

Thi Qar
Nassiriya: 3 policemen die in clashes.

Salahuddin
Samarra: gunmen storm house of Awakening member, kill him and his son.
Baiji: mortar hits residential area, kills child.

Friday 28 March: 67 dead

Baghdad: US air strike kills 5, Sadr City; US air strike kills 3, Kadhimiya; mortars kill 2 guards, Green Zone; gunmen kill 10, Mahmudiya; 7 bodies.

Thi Qar
Nassiriya: 20 killed in clashes.

Diyala
Karma: mortars kill 2 policemen.

Qadissiya
Diwaniya: gunmen kill mayor.

Wassit
Kut: 3 policemen killed in clashes.

Babil
Hamza: 6 policemen killed in clashes.
Hilla: 3 policemen killed in clashes.

Kirkuk
Tuz Khurmato: US shelling kills 2.

Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill woman in her home, leave her baby unharmed next to her body; roadside bomb kills civilian.

Basra
Basra: rocket attack kills policeman.

Thursday 27 March: 90 dead

Baghdad: mortars kill 1, Ur; mortars kill 2, al-Alawi bus station; mortars kill 1, green Zone; gunmen kill father and 13-year-old son, Talbiya; mortars kill Interior Ministry employee; US air strike kills 4, Sadr City; 1 3-year-old boy is killed during clashes, Sadr City; gunmen abduct security plan spokesman, kill his 3 bodyguards; car bomb kills 3; 5 bodies.

Babil
Hilla: 2 policemen killed in clashes.
Hamza: 3 policemen killed in clashes.
Mahaweel: roadside bomb kills 4 policemen.

Maysan
Amara: 2 die in clashes.

Salahuddin
Baiji: mortars kill woman.

Kirkuk
Daquq: gunen kill 4 bodyguards of Commander of Peshmerga.
Kirkuk: car bomb kills policeman.

Basra
Basra: bomb kills 3 bodyguards of police chief; 4 protesters are shot dead.

Diyala
Muqdadiya: mass graves containing 42 bodies are found.

Qadissiyah
Diwaniya: gunmen kill civilian.


Wednesday 26 March: 53 dead

Baghdad: mortars kill 10; 7 die in clashes; 3 bodies.

Salahuddin
Tikrit: 7 (a judge, 3 women and 3 children) die in US raid.
Samarra: father and son are killed by gunmen.
Mamlaha: body found.

Basra
Basra: rocket kills 4 policemen; gunmen kill director of Emergency at Basra general hospital.

Wassit
Kut: 3 from the same family, a child among them, are killed in clashes; 3 policemen are killed in clashes.

Qadissiya
Diwaniya: policeman is shot dead during clashes.

Ninewa
Mosul: roadside bomb kills 1; gunmen kill 3; roadside bomb kills policeman.

Diyala
Balad Ruz: 4 bodies.

Karbala
Karbala: gunmen kill 2 policemen during clashes.

Tuesday 25 March: 36 dead

Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 1, Bab al-Sheikh; Mahdi Army fighters kill attack Dawa party office, kill 2 guards, Amin; 2 policemen killed at checkpoint, Sadr City; civilian killed in clashes, Sadr City; roadside bomb kills 3, Shii'aa; 5 bodies.

Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill morgue employee; 6 bodies.

Wassit
Aziziya: 3 killed in clashes.

Basra
Basra: 9 civilians reported killed during a day of clashes between authorities and Mahdi Army; 3 civilians killed by British forces.

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