Victims of the US and British air raids in Iraq

The Iraqi daily al-Thawra reported on Sunday that more than 8,000 Iraqi civilians hvae been killed in the raids carried out by US and British warplanes against Iraq since 1991.

Al-Thawra said the bombardment by US and British planes of Iraqi civil targets since the launch of the Gulf War resulted in the deaths of some 8,243 Iraqi civilians, including 420 children under the age of four and 2,010 women.

The Iraqi paper published these new statistics in an article issued on the anniversary of the US bombardment of Al-Amereyeh shelter in Baghdad in February 1991. This bombardment resulted in killing 403 civilians.