US soldiers injured in truck attack

A MAN in civilian clothes drove a pick-up truck into a group of US soldiers standing outside a store at the Kuwaiti desert base of Camp Udairi yesterday.

About six people were injured, said Lt. Col. Larry Cox, public affairs officer at the Coalition press office in Kuwait City, contrary to an earlier report that 10 to 15 were hurt. There were no details about the injured or where they were being treated.

No explosives were found in the truck, a Pentagon official said.

The driver of the truck was a “third-country national” who was being detained by US military forces, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official did not know which country the driver was from.