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FACTBOX-Military deaths in Afghanistan
13 Jul 2008 18:26:25 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Updates with new toll)

July 13 (Reuters) - Insurgents killed nine U.S. soldiers in an assault on an Afghan army and NATO outpost in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, making it one of the worst days for foreign troops casualties in the country since 2001.

The U.S. military said earlier that a roadside bomb had killed a soldier from the U.S.-led coalition force on Sunday in the southern province of Helmand.

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 544

Britain 110

Canada 87

Germany 26*

Spain 23

Netherlands 16

Other nations 78

TOTAL: 884

* NOTE: Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defence.

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

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(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)
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