UN: Civilian deaths in Afghan war hit record high

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011 file photo, Bibi Hur cries over her injured daughter at a hospital in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. Bibi Hur has lost three of her children and two more injured by a road side bomb, Hur said. A U.N. report says last year was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians, with 3,021 killed in the war. That was an 8 percent increase in civilian deaths from 2010. It was also the fifth year in a row that the civilian toll has became steadily worse. The report issued Saturday says insurgents killed more than three-quarters of the civilians who died, with a steep rise in people killed in suicide bombings. It says roadside bombs were the single biggest killer of civilians, accounting for nearly one in three deaths.