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[Correspondence] Suicide bombing: how to prevent death in civilians? – Authors' reply

Pierre Pasquier and colleagues make the valuable point that coalition soldiers' use of tourniquets in the field might have contributed to our study's finding that fewer coalition soldiers than Iraqi civilians were killed per lethal suicide bombing in Iraq, and to the lower lethality of armed violence generally to US soldiers than to Iraqi civilians.

[Correspondence] Suicide bombing: how to prevent death in civilians?

In their Article (Sept 3, p 906), Madelyn Hicks and colleagues describe casualties from suicide bombs in Iraq during 2003–10. During the studied period, lethality was significantly higher for Iraqi civilians than for coalition soldiers. Hicks and colleagues speculate that difficult access to adequate hospital treatment for Iraqi civilians could mainly explain this difference in mortality.

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