Group estimates Iraq dead since war's start at 25,000

Reuters

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2005

BAGHDAD Nearly 25,000 Iraqi civilians, police officers, and army recruits have been killed since the war began in March 2003, according to a survey by Iraq Body Count, an American-British nongovernmental group.

Nearly half the deaths in the two years surveyed to March 2005 were in Baghdad, where a fifth of Iraq's 25 million people live, according to media reports monitored by the group. Of the total, nearly 37 percent were killed by U.S.-led forces, the group said.