FACTBOX: Military deaths in Afghanistan

(Reuters) - A Taliban attack killed three Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan on Wednesday, military officials said on Thursday, bringing to 93 the number of soldiers killed there since Canada sent troops to the war-torn country in 2002.

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 578

Britain 116

Canada 93

Germany 26*

Spain 23

France 24**

Netherlands 16

Other nations 67

TOTAL: 943

NOTES:

* Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defense.

** Figures supplied by French Military.

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

(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit;)