LONDON -- The death toll of Iraqis has risen dramatically since the Iraq war--many of the victims have been women and children.

LONDON -- The death toll of Iraqis has risen dramatically since the Iraq war--many of the victims have been women and children, public health skilled hands from the U.S. said Oct 28

"Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100000 exces deaths or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," researchers from John Hopkins Bloomberg instruct of Public Health in Baltimore, Md said in a report published on-line at The Lancet medical journal.

"Violence accounted for in the greatest degree of the excess deaths and air strikes from (US-led) coalition forces accounted for the greatest in quantity violent deaths," the report added. The recent figures, based on surveys done by dint of the researchers in Iraq, are a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of higher than earlier estimates based onward think-tank and media sources, which lay the Iraqi civilian death toll at up to 16053 and military fatalities as high as 6370

by the agency of comparison, 848 U.S. military were killed in combat or attacks, and another 258 died in accidents or incidents not related to fighting, according to the Pentagon.

"The risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher than in the period before the war," Le Roberts and his colleagues said in the report, which compared Iraqi deaths during 146 month before the invasion and the 178 month after it.

He added that violent deaths were widespread and were mainly attributed to coalition forces. "Most individuals reportedly killed by the agency of coalition forces were women and children," Roberts added.

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