FACTBOX-Military deaths in Afghanistan

Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:52am EDT
 
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July 13 (Reuters) - One foreign soldier from the NATO-led force was killed in an attack by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the alliance said in a statement on Monday. It gave no other details, including the soldier's nationality.

A roadside bomb killed two U.S. Marines in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday. Another soldier serving with NATO-led forces in the south died on Friday from wounds received in June, the alliance said.

Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since 2001:

NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

Britain 184

Canada 124

Denmark 25**

France 28*

Germany 35

Spain 25

Netherlands 19

United States 736

Other nations 69

TOTAL: 1,245

NOTES:

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

* Figures supplied by French military.

Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef), compiled from official figures. (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit;)



 

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