The human cost of the US-led war in Iraq

NICOSIA (AFP) Mar 28, 2003
Here is a breakdown of casualty figures given by various sources for the US-led war in Iraq that was in its ninth day on Friday. Confirmation of the reports is often unavailable.

Iraq

The government and official media have given various figures for different parts of Iraq, often without specifying a time period or giving a breakdown between civilian and military losses:

Civilians - More than 350 dead and about 3,650 wounded, mostly women, children and the elderly, including 14 killed Wednesday in a working-class market district of Baghdad, Health Minister Umid Medhat Mubarak said Thursday.

At least eight Iraqis were killed and 33 wounded Friday when two missiles hit a Baghdad residential area, witnesses said.

More than 50 civilians killed or wounded in bombing of the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, Al-Jazeera television reported.

Information Minister Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf said nearly 100 Iraqi civilians had been killed or wounded Thursday in coalition bombardments of several Iraqi cities, including Karbala, Babylon and Kirkuk.

He said 116 Iraqis had been killed and 695 wounded in the province of Basra, and 230 killed and 800 wounded in neighbouring Dhi Qar since the invasion began on March 20.

Sahhaf said 26 Iraqis had been killed Wednesday and Thursday at Najaf, further north.

Iraq has denied reports from US commanders that it lost around 1,000 men in fighting around Najaf earlier this week.

Others - Five Syrian, four Jordanian civilians killed in missile strikes on vehicles in western and northern Iraq

Media travelling with coalition: more than 100 Iraqi bodies seen on road north of Nasiriyah and 20-25 near Kut

According to US military:

22 killed in action

Four killed in accidents

Two killed by fellow US soldier

Seventeen soldiers listed as missing or killed in action

According to Iraq:

25 British/US troops killed in Nasariyah

Four coalition soldiers killed in Al-Muthanna province

Britain

According to British military:

Four killed in action

14 in helicopter accidents

Two aircrew, two tank crew killed in "friendly fire"

Kurdish officials:

Around 60 killed in US airstrikes on Islamic groups

Media:

Australian cameraman killed in Kurdistan, northern Iraq

British television reporter killed, two missing near Umm Qasr

Dubai-based television Al-Arabiya said Thursday it lost contact with a three-member crew -- a Syrian and two Lebanese -- in southern Iraq

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