Iraqi civilian deaths down in June
American and Iraqi officials said Sunday that they saw a decline in the monthly civilian casualty count in June. However, the size of the decline was hard to gauge because death counts in Iraq are highly inaccurate.
Iraqi officials estimated that civilian deaths nationwide had dropped 36 percent in June, down to about 1,200. Civilian casualties in May had topped 1,900, they said. The Web site icasualties.org, which tabulates news reports of civilian deaths, put the number of deaths in June at about 1,342, down from 1,980 in May.
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