U.S. forces report 4 deaths in past 2 days

By The Associated Press and Reuters

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BAGHDAD, Iraq — One U.S. soldier was killed yesterday when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his convoy near the town of Qarraya, 45 miles south of Mosul, the military said.

A soldier, a member of the Fort Lewis based Stryker Brigade, who was wounded in a roadside bombing in the same area Friday died of his injuries yesterday.

The military also announced yesterday that two sailors in Anbar province in western Iraq were killed Friday in an attack. Sailors are sometimes assigned to logistics or hospital work.

As of yesterday, at least 140 American service members have been killed in Iraq since April 1.

At least 736 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq 13-½ months ago, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 534 died as a result of hostile action and 202 died of non-hostile 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, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 598 U.S. soldiers have died — 425 as a result of hostile action and 173 of non-hostile 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 30.

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