Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) - Nearly six Afghan civilians a day were killed and eight wounded in "conflict-related incidents" through the first half of 2010, the Afghanistan Rights Monitor watchdog group said in a report Monday.
In total, 1,074 civilians were killed and more than 1,500 injured in armed violence, the group said. The totals represent a 1.3 percent increase compared to the same period last year.
More than 60 percent of the deaths, or 661 civilians, were attributed to "insurgent groups who showed little or no respect to the safety and protection of non-combatants," the report said. Improvised explosive devices killed 282 civilians, making it by far the deadliest "war activity." Suicide attacks were the next-deadliest, killing 127 civilians in the first six months of 2010.
