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More than half a million Iraqis have been killed since invasion
BMJ 2006; 333 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.333.7573.821-a (Published 19 October 2006) Cite this as: BMJ 2006;333:821
- Owen Dyer
- London
More than half a million Iraqi people, about one in 40 of the country's population, have died from violent causes since the March 2003 invasion, a study in the Lancet says.
Iraqis pray next to the coffins of victims of US airstrike in Ramadi, Iraq, on Monday 17 October 2005
Credit: BILAL HUSSEIN/AP/EMPICS
The figures in the paper, which was published online ahead of print publication on 12 October, are based on a cross sectional survey involving 1849 households with 12 801 …