Baghdad morgue took in 1,600 bodies in October

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Baghdad's morgue in October as insurgent attacks and sectarian violence surged during the holy month of Ramadan, an official at the morgue said on Sunday.

The tally is the highest since July, when the toll hit 1,815, and was up 10 percent from 1,450 in September.

The source, speaking on condition of anonymity because morgue officials have been told by the government not to speak to the media, said 85 percent of October's bodies had died violently. Most of those were men with gunshot wounds.

National statistics issued last week by the Interior Ministry for Iraqis killed in specifically political violence, as opposed to incidents put down as criminal, put civilian deaths last month at 1,289, up 18 percent from the 1,089 seen in September, itself a record for this particular series of data.

[leftchick]

1. sadly

there are hundreds of unclaimed bodies buried every day. I believe we are not seeing half the devastation there.

:(

[Cleita]

2. Laura Flanders announced on the radio this afternoon that

all the morgues are full.