FACTBOX-Military deaths in Afghanistan hit 800 since 2001

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April 22 (Reuters) - A British soldier was killed in the southern Afghan province of Helmand when his vehicle was hit by a suspected mine strike, the British Ministry of Defence said late on Monday.

The death brings the number of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001 to 94.

Since the surge of violence in the past two years, 336 foreign troops have been killed in Afghanistan by violence and 40 this year so far.

Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was toppled:

NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

United States 494

Britain 94

Canada 82

Germany 26*

Spain 23

Netherlands 16

Other nations 65

TOTAL: 800

* NOTE: Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defence.

Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef), compiled from official figures. (Writing by Gillian Murdoch, Singapore Editorial Reference Unit; Editing by Jerry Norton)