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Daily U.S. Casualties 6/7/2004
As of Sunday, 814 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 597 died as a result of hostile action and 217 died of nonhostile causes.
The Defense Department did not provide an update during the weekend, but the U.S. Central Command reported a U.S. soldier was killed Sunday by a mortar attack near Baghdad.
The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Poland, three; Thailand, two; Den mark, El Salvador, Estonia and the Netherlands have reported one each.
Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 675 U.S. soldiers have died -- 487 as a result of hostile action and 188 of non-hostile causes, according to the military's numbers as of Friday. The military did not provide an update Sunday.
The latest deaths reported by the U.S. military:
A soldier was killed Sunday by a mortar attack at his base camp near Baghdad.
The Pentagon reported no new identifications.
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