Daily U.S. Casualties 4/19/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 4/19/2004

The American military death toll in Iraq rose to at least 700 Sunday, following the announcement of 11 deaths.

As of Friday morning, the Department of Defense said at least 685 U.S. service members had died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year. Of those, 491 died as a result of hostile action and 194 died of nonhostile causes. The department did not provide an update over the weekend.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, five; 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, 545 U.S. soldiers have died -- 380 as a result of hostile action and 165 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers as of Friday.

The latest deaths reported by the military:


Five U.S. Marines died in an ambush on the Syrian border Saturday.


Three 1st Armored Division soldiers were killed Saturday when their convoy was ambushed near the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniyah.


One soldier died Saturday when a roadside bomb exploded near a military convoy in Baghdad.


A Marine was killed in action in western Iraq, in an incident separate from the fighting by the Syrian border.


One servicemember died in a tank rollover in Baghdad.

The latest identification reported by the South Dakota National Guard:


Army Spc. Dennis Morgan, 22, Valentine, Neb.; killed Saturday by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad; assigned to the 153rd Engineer Battalion of Winner, S.D.; South Dakota National Guard.