FACTBOX: Military deaths in Afghanistan

(Reuters) - A protest over the shooting of the Koran by a U.S. soldier in Iraq turned violent in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing a Lithuanian soldier and two Afghan civilians.

The soldier was from the Provincial Reconstruction Team in the town of Chaghcharan, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said. One other soldier was wounded, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said.

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 505

Britain 96

Canada 83

Germany 26*

Spain 23

Netherlands 16

Other nations 68

TOTAL: 817

* NOTE: Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defense.

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

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(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit;