WASHINGTON: More than two US soldiers were killed every day in Iraq last month; most were under 25 years of age and they came from all over the United States, according to information provided by the Pentagon.

A casualty toll collated from US defence department data established that 77 American soldiers lost their lives in Iraq last month.

In the same month, 23 US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, 16 of whom perished in a helicopter shot down by enemy fire.

Almost daily, the Pentagon makes public the names, ages, ranks and birthplaces of US soldiers killed in Iraq, including the dates and places and circumstances of their deaths.

Of the 77 servicemen and women who died in June, 48 or 62 percent, were aged 25 or younger.

The youngest soldiers killed were 18.—AFP