BAGHDAD, Sept. 13 — Nearly 90 Iraqis were killed or found dead here on Tuesday and Wednesday, an Interior Ministry official said, making for a particularly grim day even amid the intense sectarian violence.
According to the Baghdad morgue, whose statistics often prove to be higher than figures reported by news services or the Interior Ministry, the bodies of 1,535 victims of violent deaths, an average of 50 a day, were received in August. In July, the average was 60 a day. A recent study of civilian deaths by the United Nations found that by June, Iraqis across the country were being killed at a rate of more than 100 a day.
As the Iraqi police gathered up the bodies, several car bombs rocked Baghdad, killing or wounding dozens more. Among the attacks was a bomb that detonated shortly after 9 a.m. in southern Baghdad, killing 15 people, including 7 Iraqi police officers, and wounding 25 police officers and civilians, an American military spokeswoman said. - New York Times -------- These figures apparently are just for Bagdhad. Think these people are happy with the democracy we gave them?
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