(Updates toll) Sept 4 (Reuters) - A French soldier was killed by a roadside bomb on patrol in Afghanistan on Friday morning, and nine other French soldiers were injured in the same incident, the French president's office said. The latest death brings the total of French military fatalities in the Afghan conflict to 30. Two British soldiers have died in separate incidents in central Helmand in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday. The latest deaths bring the number of British military fatalities in the Afghan conflict to 212. Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since 2001: NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES: United States 812 Britain 212 Canada 128 Germany 35 France 30* Denmark 25** Spain 25 Netherlands 19 Italy 15 Other nations 61 TOTAL: 1,362 NOTES: * Figures supplied by French military. ** Figures supplied by Danish Central Command, includes one suicide. Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef), compiled from official figures. (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)
Afghan police inspect the site of an airstrike on fuel tankers in Kunduz September 4, 2009. NATO aircraft opened fire on hijacked fuel trucks in Afghanistan before dawn on Friday, killing ...
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