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Over 20 soldiers injured during joint exercise at Salisbury Plain
DB News: 18/06/2015 - 11:32
Police have said that four or five troops could have suffered “life-changing” injuries, with the two most severely injured being flown by helicopter to a nearby hospital.
They troops were completing ‘Exercise Ajaya Warrior’ as part of a wider war game named ‘Wessex Storm’ to enhance their ability to undertake joint tactical level operations in a counter insurgency/counter terrorism environment.
A spokeswoman from South West Ambulance Service said: "From our perspective we have taken two patients with life threatening injuries, and flown them to Southampton.
"One went with Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, and the other with Wiltshire Air Ambulance.
"We have taken eight patients with serious injures by road ambulance to Salisbury Hospital.
"We have treated a number of walking wounded - I am saying a number because we don't have a definitive figure."
