Daily U.S. Casualties 10/3/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 10/3/2004


As of Friday, 1,055 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 801 died as a result of hostile action and 254 died of nonhostile causes. The figures include three military civilians.

The British military has reported 67 deaths; Italy, 19; Poland, 13; Spain, 11; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, eight; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; the Netherlands, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary and Latvia have reported one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 917 U.S. military members have died -- 692 as a result of hostile action and 225 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers released Friday.

The latest deaths reported by the military:

One U.S. soldier was killed Friday by small arms fire.

There were no new identifications reported.