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
Thursday 6 November: 14 dead
Baghdad: 8 die in bombings.
Ninewa
Mosul: 1 body found.
Tameem
Sayada: 1 body found.
Hawija: US forces shoot dead man resisting arrest.
Anbar
Falluja: 3 bodies found.
Wednesday 5 November: 15 dead
Baghdad: suicide bomber kills 6.
Ninewa
Mosul: 3 die in bombing and shootings; 1 body found.
Missan
Amara: roadside bomb kills policeman.
Tameem
Riyadh: 2 bodies found.
Anbar
Karmah: roadside bomb kills 2.
Tuesday 4 November: 30 dead
Baghdad: 21 killed in bombings and shootings, including a mother and her 2 young children.
Salahuddin
Tikrit: US forces run down 2 Iraqi men putting up a banner in street.
Ninewa
Mosul: 5 killed in bombings and shootings; 2 bodies found.
Monday 3 November: 23 dead
Baghdad: bombs kill 7; gunmen kill 1; 1 body found.
Diyala
Khanaqin: gunmen kill 3 women from the same family.
Baquba: suicide car bomber kills oil chief's guard; car bomb kills policeman; car bomb kills 2 policemen and 10-year-old girl.
Saadiya: bodies of 2 abducted women found.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 1; roadside bomb kills child; 2 bodies found.
Sunday 2 November: 23 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills policeman; 2 bodies found.
Diyala
Muqdadiya: gunmen attack house, kill mother and two daughters.
Buhriz: roadside bomb kills Sahwa leader and his family (wife and 4 children); another bomb hits minibus, kills 1 passenger.
Tameem
Kirkuk: 2 children (7-year-old Muhammad Khundaer Muhammad and 9-year-old Ahmed Hamid Jelu) are blown up by bomb as they play football.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 1 in drive-by shooting; child's body is found.
Baaj: husband and wife found dead in their house.
Anbar
Rutba: 4 bodies found.
8 Iraqi children are killed on this day.
Saturday 1 November: 5 dead
Wassit
Kut: gunmen kill 1.
Ninewa
Mosul: US plane opens fire on car, kills 2; another civilian killed in separate incident.
Babil
Hilla: body found.
Friday 31 October: 4 dead
Baghdad: 2 bodies found.
Wassit
Kut: gunmen kill policeman.
Basra
Al-Shiaiba: child is blown up by landmine.
OCTOBER TOTAL: 553 civilians killed or found dead, 26 killed by US forces.
Among October's dead 33 Iraqi children.