The United Nations
mission to Iraq says more people were killed in violent attacks across the
country in April than in any other month since June 2008.The U.N. figures
released on Thursday underscore concerns that security is quickly decreasing in
Iraq, where violence spiked in the last part of April. The UN says it noted 712
people killed last month, which included 117 members of the Iraqi security
forces. The capital district of Baghdad was affected the worst. Casualty tolls
in Iraq can vary, with official reports at times differing from accounts from
local police and hospital officials. Newspapers that I have seen online have
all recorded more than 400 killed last month. Iraq witnessed its deadliest bout
of violence between 2006 and 2007, when the country was on the brink of civil
war.
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