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April 12 (Reuters) - Two Canadian soldiers were killed and two wounded near Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle, the Defence Ministry said.

Canada has lost 53 soldiers since troops were sent to Afghanistan in 2002 as part of the U.S.-led war on terrorism.

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 377

Britain 52

Canada 53

Spain 20

Germany 18

Other nations 36

TOTAL: 556

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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