FACTBOX: Military and civilian deaths in Iraq

Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:44pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - Two U.S. Marines were killed and three Marines, two Iraqi police and 24 Iraqi civilians were wounded on Tuesday, when a suicide car bomb blew up at a checkpoint near Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

A U.S. Marine was killed by a roadside bomb in the southern city of Basra on Monday, the U.S. military said. One Marine was wounded in the attack.

A U.S. sailor was found dead in Dubai on Monday in a non-combat related incident, the U.S. military reported.

Following are the latest figures for soldiers and civilians killed since the U.S.-led invasion in March, 2003:

U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

United States 4,045

Britain 176

Other nations 134

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