http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040414/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_casualties&cid=540&ncid=1473WASHINGTON - For American forces in Iraq (news - web sites), these are the deadliest days of the war. At least 87 U.S. troops have been killed in action so far this month, with the most recent death announced on Tuesday. Also this month, more than 560 have been wounded and two soldiers were declared missing. At least four American civilians were killed, one contractor was captured by gunmen and six others were missing and feared abducted.
The number wounded so far in April exceeds the total for any other full month of the war by more than 220.
Even the opening days of the conflict, while deadly and tense, were not as costly in American blood. In the first 13 days after invading U.S. and British forces crossed the Kuwaiti border into southern Iraq on March 20, 2003, a total of 77 U.S. troops were killed in action and 10 more died from non-hostile causes.
The toll keeps climbing. Central Command reported Tuesday that one soldier of the 1st Infantry Division was killed and another was wounded in a roadside bomb attack south of Baghdad.
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