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 16 October: 12 dead
Baghdad: 1 body found.
Diyala
Buhriz: roadside bomb kills 6-year-old boy.
Al-Raqqah: US forces kill Sahwa member during raid.
Tameem
Shorash: gunmen kill 1.
Chamchamal: gunmen kill 1.
Missan
Amara: 7 killed in clashes (2 children).
Wednesday 15 October: 34 dead
Baghdad: bombs and mortar attacks kill 5; 2 bodies found.
Karbala
Abu Aisha: 22 bodies found in mass grave.
Diyala
Balad Ruz: roadside bomb kills 1.
Sadiya: gunmen kill 2.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 1.
Wassit
Kut: gunmen kill 1.
Tuesday 14 October: 4 dead
Baghdad: 1 body found.
Wassit
Kut: 2 bodies found.
Ninewa
Mosul: 1 killed in drive-by shooting.
Monday 13 October: 2 dead
Baghdad: 2 bodies found.
Sunday 12 October: 35 dead
Baghdad: car bomb kills 9 (2 children), Bayaa; gunmen kill 2 Sahwa members, Dora; 1 body found.
Ninewa
Mosul: roadside bomb kills 5 (3 children); car bomb kills 2 prison guards; Christian man is killed by gunmen in his music shop; gunmen storm policeman's house and kill him; 12 bodies found.
Wassit
Suwayra: 2 bodies found.
Saturday 11 October: 6 dead
Ninewa
Mosul: 5 civilians shot dead in separate incidents.
Diyala
Baquba: 1 policeman is killed during raid.
Friday 10 October: 47 dead
Baghdad: bombs kill 14, Doura, Abu Dsheer; 1 body found.
Ninewa
Mosul: bombs kill 19; gunmen kill 5 Christians in separate incidents; 1 civilian dies during clashes; 3 bodies found.
Tameem
Kirkuk: gunmen kill journalist, 28-year-old Dayar Abbas.
Anbar
Falluja: car bomb kills policeman.
Diyala
Muqdadiya: roadside bomb blows up car, kills 2.