THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2008
18:48 MECCA TIME, 15:48 GMT
Iraq death toll 'over one million'
The British base in Basra came under rocket
attack on Thursday morning [AFP]
More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of
the conflict started by the US-led invasion of Iraq in
2003, according to a new survey by a UK polling group.
The report was followed by more violence on Thursday,
with five people killed and eight injured in a bomb
blast in the Kazimiyah neighbourhood of Baghdad, the
Iraqi capital.
The survey, conducted by UK-based Opinion Research
Business (ORB), found that 20 per cent of people in
Iraq had experienced at least one death in their
household as a result of the conflict, rather than
natural causes.
The survey consisted of face-to-face interviews with
2,414 adults.
The last complete census in Iraq conducted in 1997
found 4.05 million households in the country, a figure
ORB used to calculate that approximately 1.03 million
people had died as a result of the war.
The margin of error in the survey, conducted in August
and September 2007, was 1.7 per cent, giving a range
of deaths from 946,258 to 1.12 million people. The
research covered 15 of Iraq's 18 provinces.
Those missing from the survey included two of Iraq's
more dangerous regions, Kerbala and Anbar, and the
northern province of Arbil, where local authorities
refused the group a permit to work.
Tallys of civilians killed in Iraq since the US-led
invasion have been controversial in the past.
The Iraq Body Count website estimates the number is
under one million, but upwards of between 80,699 and
88,126 people, although US authorities have questioned
the site's methodology and figures.
Baghdad blast
Those people killed and injured in Thursday's car bomb
attack in Baghdad were passers-by in the street or in
three cars that were damaged as they drove past the
explosion, the Reuters news agency reported.
An Iraqi police officer, said the car was parked about
300 metres from a bus station but it exploded early in
the day before passengers had started to arrive.
In another attack in Iraq, rockets slammed into a
British base in Basra, in southern Iraq, killing at
least 10 Iraqis outside the base and wounding three
British soldiers.
Captain Finn Aldrich, a British military spokesman in
Basra, said no major damage was reported on the base,
but one of the rockets landed outside the entry gates
for Iraqi civilian employees.
British troops retaliated, firing six artillery shells
towards the launching points, Aldrich said.
Major Rafea al-Ajwadi, a Basra police chief, said the
British artillery fire had hit a construction company,
killing one employee and wounding five others.
Aldrich said joint British-Iraqi investigation was
under way to determine whether the casualties found at
the site of the artillery strikes were civilians or
fighters, as well as other details about the attack.
Source: Agencies
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