Report claims 25,000 Iraqis killed since Allied invasion began two years ago

ALMOST 25,000 Iraqi civilians were killed violently in the two years after United States-led troops went into the country, with more than a third of the deaths caused by Allied forces, according to a report released yesterday.

The total compiled by Iraq Body Count and the Oxford Research Group is significantly lower than the estimated 98,000 figure in a controversial study in the medical journal The Lancet last autumn.

But it still amounts to 34 Iraqis dead for every single day since the invasion began, and one in 1,000 of Iraq's 25 million population.