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How many Spanish soldiers were killed wounded or missing during the Rif War?

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Spanish soldiers operate artillery cannons in a desert landscape near Melilla, with smoke billowing as a cannon fires during a 1930s battle. — Rif War Spanish artillery firing outside Melilla during the Rif War.

During the Rif War, official Spanish casualty figures published in the late 1920s indicate that approximately 43,500 Spanish troops were killed, wounded, or went missing.12