Iraq violence: May was deadliest month for years - UN

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The United Nations says more than 1,000 people were killed in Iraq in May, the highest monthly death toll for years.

The violence makes it the deadliest month since the wide sectarian violence of 2006-7, and raising concern that the country is returning to civil war.

The vast majority of the casualties were civilians, and Baghdad was the worst hit area of the country.

Martin Kobler, UN envoy to Iraq, called it a "sad record" and urged politicians to act to stop the bloodshed.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22740452

[Igel]

1. A predictably incomplete story.

Rather like a report during WWII: "Today in the war 893 soldiers were died in hostilities. Outside the cities, primarily Allied troops, largely Russian, American and British, were hit hardest, but in urban areas it was primarily Germans except in occupied areas where it was Poles."

You'd expect a kind of breakdown, either by side or by context. But, no.