16 Israeli Soldiers Wounded During Parachute Exercise
Sixteen Israeli soldiers were wounded during a nighttime parachute exercise in southern Israel, and six of them required hospitalization, Israel Radio and doctors said Monday.
The army command confirmed the report but gave no details.
Dr. Haim Reuven, director of Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, said 16 soldiers were brought to the emergency room Sunday night with leg, arm and head injuries. Six were hospitalized.
Israel Radio said the accident was caused by high winds during the parachuting exercise. It said all the injured were reservists.
It was the Israeli military’s third training accident in a little more than four months.
On July 17, five Israeli soldiers were killed and 10 were wounded when a stray artillery shell landed near a reserve unit conducting a tank exercise.
On April 23, seven Israeli airmen were killed when their transport helicopter crashed during a flight over the occupied West Bank.
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