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2 US soldiers hurt in ammunition truck accident in Poland

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AP Warsaw
Last Updated : Jan 22 2017 | 6:42 PM IST
Poland's Defence Ministry today said that two US soldiers have been hurt in an Army truck accident in southwestern Poland.
A ministry communique said the truck carrying tank ammunition skidded off a slippery road because the driver was going too fast for the winter road conditions.
Some of the ammunition for M-1 Abrams tanks the truck was hauling spilled onto the road leading to Zagan, where US troops are based. The road was temporarily closed after the accident occurred after dark yesterday.
A spokesman for local firefighters, Captain Dariusz Szymura, tells television station TVN24 that one of the soldiers was hospitalised.
About 3,500 US troops are deploying to Poland under a plan approved by former President Barack Obama to ease the worry in a region nervous about Russian military activity.

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First Published: Jan 22 2017 | 6:42 PM IST

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