Twelve wounded US soldiers brought to Germany from Gulf

Twelve wounded US troops were flown to Germany today for treatment at a military hospital.

They included three seriously injured soldiers to be among the casualties from an incident over the weekend at the 101st Airborne Division’s command centre in Kuwait, military officials said.

The wounded, including seven with battle-related injuries, arrived in a C-141 transporter from Kuwait at the US Ramstein Air Base in western Germany – the first battlefield wounded to be brought there since the start of the Iraq war.

All the injured were transferred to ambulances to be brought to the nearby US medical centre at Landstuhl.

Those arriving were expected to include three soldiers who were seriously wounded when a US soldier threw grenades into tents at the 101st Airborne Division’s command centre in Kuwait near the Iraqi border, said Marie Shaw, a spokeswoman for the Landstuhl hospital.

One soldier was killed in the attack and 15 injured. Military authorities are investigating the attack.

US military officials provided no further details on the evacuated soldiers’ condition. Their identities were not released.