A total of 13 Australian soldiers were injured when two army trucks rolled over during a deployment on the country’s storm-battered eastern coast, officials said Sunday.
“One vehicle left the roadway and rolled several times into a paddock, and a second vehicle tipped onto its side attempting to avoid the first vehicle,” New South Wales state police said in a statement after launching a crash investigation.
“The vehicles did not collide with each other.”
Police, emergency services and troops removed all 32 occupants of the two trucks in Saturday’s incident near the flood-prone New South Wales city of Lismore.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told a news conference that six of the soldiers had been seriously hurt.
“These men and women are heroes who were on their way to help people…
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