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TEHRAN - During the last Iranian calendar year 2,026 people lost their lives from burns in Iran out of which 1033 were women and 993 were men.
The last Iranian year ended on March 20, 2013.
This is the lowest recorded death toll due to burns that has ever been reported in the country.
The public relations and international affairs department of the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization has announced that based on statistics the deaths related to burns last year declined by 1.8 percent compared to that of the year before.
Based on the statistics, the death related to burns in the country has showed a declining trend and only in 2008 and 2010 the trend shifted to increasing one. It is worth mentioning that in the past decade the highest death rate due to burns was in 2003 and the lowest rate was in 2012.
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