June 12 (Reuters) - The NATO soldier killed in a blast in southern Afghanistan on Monday was Canadian, Canada's Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The soldier died when a roadside bomb exploded beside his vehicle about 25 miles (40 km) north of the southern city of Kandahar, said the ministry's statement released late on Monday.

Here are the latest figures for foreign military deaths in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was toppled in 2001:

NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

United States 398

Britain 60

Canada 57

Spain 21

Germany 21

Other nations 42

TOTAL: 599

Last year's fighting was the bloodiest in Afghanistan since U.S.-led forces overthrew the Taliban in 2001 and violence is increasing this year. Fifty foreign soldiers have been killed in fighting so far this year.

More than 4,000 people were killed in fighting in 2006, a quarter of them civilians and about 170 of them foreign soldiers killed in fighting or in accidents while on patrol.

Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef)

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