2 U.S. soldiers die in attack north of Baghdad

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Today, a roadside bomb exploded near Baghdad's Kindi Hospital, killing three Iraqis, including a mother and her child, police said. The U.S. military had no immediate information on the blast.

As of yesterday, 840 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 620 died as a result of hostile action and 220 died of non-hostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria and Poland, six each; Ukraine, four; Slovakia three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 702 U.S. soldiers have died — 511 as a result of hostile action and 191 of nonhostile causes, according to the military.

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