Over 5,000 people have been killed by jihadist in just one month, according to an investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service and King’s College, London.
Iraq was the most dangerous place to be in November, with 1,770 deaths in 233 attacks, ranging from shootings to suicide bombings. Nigeria came second as 786 people, almost all of them civilians, were killed in 27 Boko Haram incidents.
Out of the total 5,000 deaths, were 2,000 civilians killed in reported jihadist incidents in November 2014. About 80 per cent of the deaths came in just four countries – Iraq, Nigeria, Syria and Afghanistan, according to the study of media and civil society reports.
5,042 people were killed in 664 jihadist attacks across 14 countries, a daily average of 168 deaths, or seven every hour, the BBC data showed.
Islamic State carried out the most attacks, adding to the spiralling death toll in Iraq and Syria. In East Africa, al-Shabab took 266 lives in Somalia and Kenya.
Afghanistan suffered almost the same number of deaths as Nigeria (782) but they tended to be in smaller, targeted attacks, such as the shooting of the deputy governor of Kandahar.
In war-ravaged Syria, 693 people were killed; Yemen had 410 deaths in 37 attacks.
Of the 16 jihadist groups involved in the bloodshed, Islamic State was the most deadly, killing 2,206 people across Iraq and Syria – 44 per cent of the total death toll.
