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Daily U.S. Casualties 3/7/2004
As of Friday, 550 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 379 died as a result of hostile action and 171 died of nonhostile causes, the department said. The department did not provide an update Saturday.
The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, five; Thailand, two; Denmark, Ukraine, Estonia and Poland have reported one each.
Since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 412 U.S. soldiers have died -- 264 as a result of hostile action and 148 of nonhostile causes, according to the military.
Since the start of military operations, 2,743 U.S. service members have been injured as a result of hostile action, according to the Defense Department's figures as of Saturday. Nonhostile injured numbered 421. The latest casualties reported by the military:
Three U.S. soldiers were wounded Saturday in Habaniyah, west of Baghdad, when an apparent truck-bomb crashed and exploded.
Four British soldiers were wounded Friday during a firefight in Qalah Salih, southern Iraq.
There were no new identifications reported by the military.
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