BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- The official casualty toll of 15 years of civil war in Lebanon was 144,240 killed, 197,506 wounded and 17,415 missing, police said Monday.
The report said the missing include 13,968 Lebanese who were kidnapped by Christian and Muslim militias. Most of them are presumed dead, it said.
The wounded included 13,455 listed as maimed. The total number of wounded likely was several times the official figure because the police listed only injuries reported to authorities.
The figures were first published by the Beirut independent newspaper An-Nahar on Friday and the information office of the Beirut police department confirmed the statistics Monday.
The war began in 1975 in clashes between Christians and Muslims. It ended in 1990 when Syrian troops defeated rebel Gen. Michel Aoun, making possible the implementation of an Arab League-mediated peace accord signed a year earlier.
The report said 3,641 car bombs exploded during the civil war, killing 4,386 people and wounding 6,784.
Those victims included 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French paratroopers killed in simultaneous truck-bombings in Beirut in 1983 as well as 75 people killed in bombings at the U.S. Embassy in 1983 and 1984.
The report said the statistics excluded Palestinians killed in internal power struggles in refugee camps, which resulted in the deaths of around 2,000.
Also excluded were Palestinians and Lebanese killed and wounded in attacks by Christian militiamen on the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps during the Israeli occupation of Beirut in 1982. Monday's police report put the number of dead at 857 and the number of wounded at 1,124. Earlier estimates on the number killed ranged from 200 to 900.
The report said 3,781 Shiite Muslims and Palestinians were killed and 6,787 were wounded in three waves of fighting between the Syrian-backed Shiite Amal militia and the Palestine Liberation Organization in Beirut's refugee camps from 1985 through 1987.