FACTBOX: Military deaths in Afghanistan

Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:13pm EDT
 
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(Reuters) - A British soldier was killed and two were wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday.

The attack happened in Kabul on Monday, when the attacker rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a patrol as it was moving through the capital.

The death raises the number of British troops killed in Afghanistan to 115 since Britain joined the U.S.-led invasion of the country in late 2001.

Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was toppled in 2001:

NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

United States 572

Britain 115

Canada 90

Germany 26*

Spain 23

Netherlands 16

Other nations 76

TOTAL: 918

* NOTE: Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defense.

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

(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)

 

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