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FACTBOX: Military deaths in Afghanistan

Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:05am EDT

(Reuters) - One U.S. service member was killed in a bomb blast in an area of southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the alliance said.

Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001:

NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

United States 880

Britain 221

Canada 131

France 36*

Germany 35

Spain 26

Denmark 25**

Netherlands 21

Italy 21

Other nations 67

TOTAL: 1,463

NOTES:

* Figures supplied by French military.

** Figures supplied by Danish Central Command, includes one suicide.

Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef), compiled from official figures.

(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)
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