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FACTBOX-Military deaths in Afghanistan
09 Jul 2008 13:09:03 GMT
Source: Reuters
July 9 (Reuters) - A roadside bomb, probably planted by Taliban insurgents, killed an Australian soldier and wounded two others in southern Uruzgan on Tuesday, Australia's military said.

A similar blast killed a U.S. soldier in eastern Kunar province also on Tuesday, a provincial official said.

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 543

Britain 110

Canada 87

Germany 26*

Spain 23

Netherlands 16

Other nations 73

TOTAL: 878

* NOTE: Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defence.

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


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