(For related story see DENMARK-AFGHAN/ or [ID:nL29910994])

Nov 30 (Reuters) - Two Danish soldiers were killed while fighting Taliban insurgents in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, the Danish Army Central Command said on Thursday.

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

NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

United States 469

Britain 84

Canada 73

Spain 23

Germany 26*

Other nations 66

TOTAL: 741

* NOTE: Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defence.

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

(Writing by Gill Murdoch, Singapore Editorial Reference Unit)

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