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FACTBOX: Military deaths in Afghanistan

Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:28pm EDT

(Reuters) - A Canadian soldier based in the Afghan capital Kabul died of a gunshot wound on Wednesday after he was found injured in his room, the Defense Ministry said.

The soldier, serving with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, was the 70th member of the armed forces to die since Ottawa deployed troops in late 2002.

Here are the figures for foreign military deaths in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was toppled in 2001:

NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

United States 435

Britain 73

Canada 70

Spain 21

Germany 25*

Other nations 51

TOTAL: 675

* NOTE: Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defence.

Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef)


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