Daily U.S. Casualties 5/1/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 5/1/2004

As of Friday, 732 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 530 died as a result of hostile action and 202 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, 594 U.S. soldiers have died -- 421 as a result of hostile action and 173 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers.

Since the start of military operations, 3,864 U.S. service members have been injured in hostile action, according to Defense Department figures as of April 23.

The latest deaths reported by U.S. Central Command and military officials in Iraq:


A soldier attached to the 16th Military Police Brigade died Thursday in a nonhostile incident in Baghdad.


Two Marines died Friday in a suicide car bombing near their camp in Fallujah, Iraq.


There were no new identifications reported by the military Friday.