Baghdad (Iraq): Nearly 1,400 Iraqi civilians were killed in Baghdad in May, the highest monthly death toll since the US-led invasion three years ago, according to a high-ranking Iraqi Health Ministry official.
All were killed in attacks; in most of these, bodies were found strewn across the Iraqi capital, shot execution-style, the official said.
The figure does not include civilians who died in explosions, the official added.
Atleast 400 of the bodies could not be identified and should be buried by the government in three weeks, if they are not claimed, the official said.
The number of Iraqis who have died in Baghdad alone in the first five months of 2006 stands at 6,025, or more than 1,200 a month.
If this monthly death rate continues, 2006 would exceed last year with some 10,150 bodies received by the morgue as the deadliest year in Baghdad since the war's beginning.
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