Daily U.S. Casualties 4/28/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 4/28/2004

As of Tuesday, 719 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 518 died as a result of hostile action and 201 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and Poland have reported one each.

Since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 581 U.S. soldiers have died -- 409 as a result of hostile action and 172 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers.

The latest deaths reported by the military:


A soldier was killed Tuesday in an attack in Baghdad.

No new identifications were reported by the military.