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 23 October: 21 dead
Baghdad: suicide bomber kills 13, Bab Al-Sharji.
Diyala
Baquba: US forces open fire on car, kill woman.
Wassit
Kut: police open fire in crowded market, kill 1; mortar hits home, kills 2.
Ninewa
Mosul: 2 Christians (father and son) killed.
Salahuddin
Fatha: roadside bomb kills 2 policemen.
Wednesday 22 October: 45 dead
Baghdad: bombs kill 3; 1 body found.
Ninewa
Mosul: car bomb kills 4; 1 body found.
Diyala
Balad Ruz: roadside bomb kills policeman.
Anbar
Qaim: 34 bodies found in mass grave.
Salahuddin
Tuz Khurmato: 1 head found.
Tuesday 21 October: 26 dead
Baghdad: 1 body found.
Babil
Jurf al-Sakhr: 15 killed in attack on two tribes.
Salahuddin
Shirqat: gunmen kill oil refinery director.
Diyala
5 in minibus killed by US forces.
Mandili: car bomb kills 3.
Ninewa
Mosul: 1 body found.
Monday 20 October: 30 dead
Baghdad: bombs kill 4; 1 body found.
Diyala
Muqdadiya: Iraqi police kill civilian during raid.
Khanaqeen: contractor killed by roadside bomb.
Buhriz: 1 body found.
Ninewa
Mosul: 3 killed in separate incidents.
Anbar
Zaghareed: mass gave found containing 10 bodies.
Babil
Latifiya: mass grave found containing 9 bodies.
Sunday 19 October: 7 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 2, Zafaraniya; 1 body found.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 2 in separate incidents.
Hassan Sham: gunmen kill KDP guard.
Salahuddin
Tikrit: gunmen kill Sahwa member.
Saturday 18 October: 24 dead
Anbar
Ramadi: roadside bomb strikes convoy of Rutba Mayor, kills bodyguard.
Diyala
Baquba: gunmen kill displaced man returning home; bomb kills woman outside her house; gunmen kill man in front of shop.
Babil
Mussayab: gunmen kill Sahwa member.
Salahuddin
Balad: 6 killed in shoot-out (inc. pregnant woman) at Sahwa checkpoint.
Banat al-Hassan: 11 bodies found in mass graves.
Tuz Khurmato: 1 body found.
Ninewa
Mosul: 1 body found.
Friday 17 October: 11 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 3, Shaab.
Tameem
Chamchamal: gunmen kill 1.
Anbar
Falluja: bomb kills Sheikh outside his house.
Ninewa
Mosul: roadside bomb kills 1.
Wassit
Kut: the bodies of 2 women found, one of them pregnant.
Qadisiyya
Diwaniya: the bodies of 2 brothers (14 and 17 years old) found stabbed and beheaded.