United Nations, March 5 (RHC)-- Latest figures released by the United Nations show that acts of terrorism and violence killed 670 people in Iraq in the month of February. According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), 1,290 others were injured.

The UN mission added that the number of the civilians killed stood at 410, and the number of civilians injured was 1,050. Violence claimed the lives of 260 members of the Iraqi security forces while 240 others sustained injuries.

A large number of the fatalities were recorded in the capital, Baghdad, where 277 civilians were killed and 838 others wounded. A total of 40 people were killed and 43 others wounded in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala. And in the northern province of Nineveh, 42 people were killed and five injured.