Daily U.S. Casualties 4/25/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 4/25/2004


As of Friday, 707 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 509 died as a result of hostile action and 198 died of nonhostile causes.

The department did not provide an update Saturday of their overall numbers.

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, 569 U.S. soldiers have died -- 400 as a result of hostile action and 169 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers as of Friday.

The latest deaths reported by the military on Saturday:


Four U.S. soldiers were killed Saturday in a rocket attack in Taji, north of Baghdad.


Two Navy sailors were killed Saturday in a suicide attack near an oil facility in the Persian Gulf.


A Marine died Saturday of injuries received in fighting in Anbar province on April 14.


The military announced the death of a soldier in a noncombat incident in Iraq, but there were no further details.


The latest identifications reported by the Defense Department on Saturday:


Army reservist Sgt. Elmer C. Krause, 40, Greensboro, N.C.; declared dead Saturday after being formerly listed as missing; 724th Transportation Company, Bartonville, Ill.


Army Pfc. Shawn C. Edwards, 20, Bensenville, Ill.; killed Friday when his vehicle hit a mine in Samarra, Iraq; assigned to the 121st Signal Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, Kitzingen, Germany.