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DATE: MONDAY, April 26, 1993                   TAG: 9304260057
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CAIRO, EGYPT                                LENGTH: Short

IRAQ BLAMES CHILDREN'S DEATHS ON U.N. LIMITS

Death rates among young children in Iraq have increased by more than 800 percent because of U.N. economic sanctions, Iraq said Sunday.

The Iraqi mission to the Cairo-based Arab League said that in March 1989, 362 Iraqi children under age 5 died of malnutrition, diarrhea and pneumonia. It said that figure was up to 3,419 children in March 1993, an increase of 844 percent.

There was no independent confirmation of the figures.

Iraq blames the increased death on shortages of food and medicine from the U.N. sanctions imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. - Associated Press

Keywords:
FATALITY

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