Afghans lower the coffin of Afghan cameraman Zubair Hatami, who died on Saturday of injuries sustained in a Taliban attack at a French cultural centre, in Kabul December 21, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Omar Sobhani

Record Number Of Afghan Civilians Killed In 2014, Says UN -- Deutschde Welle

The UN mission in Afghanistan has released a new report saying that the country has seen more than 3,100 civilians killed in conflict in 2014. The number is up 19 percent from last year.

The number of civilians killed and injured in Afghanistan this year was the highest ever recorded by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the organization said in its annual report on Saturday.

Georgette Gagnon, the human rights director of UNAMA, announced at a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York on Friday that 3,188 civilians had been killed in the first 11 months of 2014 and 6,429 were injured. The total number of Afghans killed and injured could exceed 10,000 in 2014 for the first time ever, she said.

Compared with 2013, the year 2014 also saw a 33 percent increase in the number of children that died and a 14 percent rise in that of women.

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Update: The Taliban have a different point of view .... Afghan Taliban decry 'biased' U.N. report on civilian casualties (Reuters).