FACTBOX-Military deaths in Afghanistan
Source: Reuters
April 20 (Reuters) - Two NATO soldiers have been killed in separate blasts in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said on Friday. The defence ministry in Amsterdam said one of the dead was a Dutch soldier. Five Dutch soldiers died in Afghanistan in 2006. 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 380 Canada 54 Britain 53 Spain 20 Germany 18 Other nations 37 TOTAL: 562 Last year was the bloodiest in Afghanistan since U.S.-led forces overthrew the Taliban in 2001. More than 4,000 people were killed in fighting in 2006, a quarter of them civilians and more than 170 of them foreign soldiers. Sources: Reuters, www.icasualties.org/oef
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