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FACTBOX-Military deaths in Afghanistan
27 Jun 2008 15:03:06 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Updates with new incident)

June 27 (Reuters) - Three members of Afghanistan's U.S.-led coalition force and an Afghan interpreter were killed when their convoy was blown up by a bomb in Wardak, southwest of Kabul, the force said in a statement on Friday.

In another attack on Thursday, in the southwestern province of Farah, a coalition soldier was killed, the U.S. military said.

Thursday's attacks took the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan in June to 40, the highest monthly toll since U.S.-led troops ousted the Taliban in late 2001.

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 537

Britain 108

Canada 85

Germany 26*

Spain 23

Netherlands 16

Other nations 74

TOTAL: 869

* 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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