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Published online 29 October 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041025-20
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100,000 civilians may have died in Iraq conflict
Study suggests most of those killed were women and children.
As many as 100,000 civilians may have been killed as a consequence of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, according to the first attempt at a systematic analysis, published on 29 October.
A US-Iraqi team led by health researcher Les Roberts of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, interviewed nearly 1,000 Iraqi households in 33 randomly selected neighbourhoods across the country.
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