British investigate 48 Iraqi deaths: "British military police have opened investigations into the deaths of 48 Iraqis - a jump of nearly a third in the previously disclosed official figure, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
The Ministry of Defence also admitted on Friday that armed forces police have investigated, or are still looking into, a total of 94 cases of alleged deaths in custody, illegal shootings, injuries and suspected ill-treatment involving British troops.
The latest figures, which are a significant rise in the last official statistics released by defence ministers in June, are set to climb even higher, officials have admitted.
The IoS has established that the MoD still has no clear figure for the number of Iraqis who have died in incidents involving British troops since the occupation officially began on 1 May last year.
After mounting allegations from lawyers and human rights group that abuses were being ignored, the armed forces minister, Adam Ingram, ordered all military units that have served in Iraq to check their records and produce a full list of every incident where an Iraqi was killed."
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