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List of Casualties in Iraq War
03.04.2003 [23:25] ン
Following are details of recent casualties in the Iraq war as
announced by U.S., British and Iraqi authorities or independently
confirmed by Reuters correspondents:
TOTALS:
U.S. AND BRITISH MILITARY CASUALTIES
-- 55 U.S. killed and 12 missing; possible further seven killed in helicopter crash.
-- 27 British killed.
IRAQI CASUALTIES
-- Iraqi military -- no reliable figures.
-- Iraqi civilians (Iraqi estimates) -- At least 1,250 killed.
NOTE: Official figures usually lag behind actual battlefield casualties.
U.S. MILITARY IN COMBAT:
April 2 -- Black Hawk helicopter shot down by Iraq near the city of Kerbala. Pentagon says seven killed and four wounded but Central Command says six people were on board.
-- F/A-18 Hornet single-seat fighter-bomber downed in southern Iraq, pilot missing.
BRITISH MILITARY IN COMBAT: March 30 -- One soldier was killed when a launch carrying Royal Marines came under grenade attack and gunfire during a patrol of waterways on the Faw peninsula. Three Marines were seriously injured in the attack.
April 3 -- Defense Minister Geoff Hoon said that 39 British casualties were being treated on the ground and a further 35 had been evacuated from the region.
IRAQI CIVILIANS:
April 2 -Iraq says that overnight bombing by U.S.-led forces killed 24 civilians and injured 186 across the country.
April 3 -- Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said in an interview with Reuters in Baghdad's central Palestine hotel that they now have now more than 1,250 civilians killed and 5,000 injured all over the country since March 20, the beginning of the war.
U.S. AND BRITISH NON-COMBAT DEATHS:
March 31 -- U.S. marine traveling on top of a truck in Nassiriya is killed when his rifle gets snagged in low-hanging power lines.
April 1 -- A British soldier is killed in an accident involving a light armored vehicle, taking the British death toll to 27.
April 3 -- U.S. military officials said they were investigating a possible friendly fire incident when an F-15E Strike Eagle plane might have accidentally bombed a U.S. artillery position south of Baghdad. One U.S. army soldier was killed.
JOURNALISTS KILLED:
March 22 -- Australian cameraman Paul Moran killed by car bomb in northern Iraq blamed by Kurdish officials on militant Islamic group Ansar al-Islam, which Washington has linked to al Qaeda.
March 22 -- Terry Lloyd, a journalist from Britain's Independent Television News, killed after coming under fire on way to Basra.
April 2 -- Kaveh Golestan, an Iranian freelance cameraman working for the British Broadcasting Corporation killed when he stepped on a land mine. He had been filming at Kifri.
NON-IRAQIS:
March 23 -- Syria said U.S. and British aircraft bombed a bus carrying Syrian civilian workers returning home from Iraq, killing five and wounding an unspecified number.
MISSING:
March 29 -- Fred Nerac and Hussein Othman, two journalists from Britain's Independent Television News came under fire on March 22 near Basra in southern Iraq and are still missing.
Источник: Reuters