NATO: 1 dead in noncombat incident in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan?? NATO says one of its service members has died in an incident that did not involve combat.

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The statement said the incident occurred on Saturday, but provided no further details.

The death, the 28th in December, brought to 544 the number of NATO troops who died in Afghanistan in 2011.

The yearly total is considerably lower than for 2010, when more than 700 troops died. The numbers of wounded have remained consistently high, dipping only slightly from last year's total of more than 5,000 service members.

Despite the drop in the numbers of deaths, 2011 is the second-deadliest for NATO troops in the 10-year war.

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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45832910/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

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