WASHINGTON, April 28: Some 11,000 terrorist attacks were carried out in the world last year, killing more than 14,600 people, the majority of them in Iraq, the US government said in a report on Friday.

The CIA figures contained in an annual State Department report were sharply higher than the 651 attacks and 1,907 deaths registered in 2004, but were due to the use of a new broader definition of terrorism, the document said.

It said Iraq accounted for just over 30 per cent (3,500) of the 11,111 terrorist attacks worldwide and 55 per cent (8,300) of the more than 14,600 deaths.

The department’s ‘Country Reports on Terrorism 2005’ also said the number of suicide attacks rose in several countries, totalling 360 and causing more than a fifth (3,000) of all fatalities across the globe.

Nearly 25,000 people were wounded by terrorists last year, the report said.—AFP