GERMANY: SEVERAL U.S. SOLDIERS AND A CANADIAN JOURNALIST INJURED IN AFGHANISTAN ARRIVE AT RAMSTEIN AIRBASE FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT

Record ID: 648378

  • Title: GERMANY: SEVERAL U.S. SOLDIERS AND A CANADIAN JOURNALIST INJURED IN AFGHANISTAN ARRIVE AT RAMSTEIN AIRBASE FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT
  • Date: 6th March 2002
  • Summary: (W8) RAMSTEIN, GERMANY (MARCH 6, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (NIGHT SHOTS) 1. MV: PLANE CARRYING THE WOUNDED TAXIING 0.21 2. CLOSE OF TAIL OF THE PLANE WITH RED CROSS AND U.S. FLAG 0.25 3. MV/SV: PLANE DOORS OPENING (2 SHOTS) 0.42 4. VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS CARRYING THE WOUNDED ON STRETCHERS DOWN THE STAIRS AND INTO THE WAITING VEHICLE (PLEASE NOTE THE FACES OF THE WOUNDED ARE COVERED FOR PRIVACY AND SECURITY REASONS) (3 SHOTS) 1.19 5. MV: MEDIA 1.22 6. SV'S: MORE OF WOUNDED BEING CARRIED FROM THE PLANE AND PUT INTO WAITING VEHICLE/ SOLDIERS (4 SHOTS) 2.12 7. SV: MEDIA 2.16 8. VARIOUS OF MORE OF WOUNDED TAKEN OFF AIRCRAFT/IN VEHICLE (3 SHOTS) 2.53 9. SV: MILITARY CAMERA OPERATOR 2.47 10. LV: CONVOY CARRYING THE WOUNDED LEAVING 2.53 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st March 2002 12:00
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  • Location: RAMSTEIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVACLWAHI4DTJFE1E455NWE1Z62E
  • Story Text: Several U.S. soldiers and a Canadian journalist that
    were injured in Afghanistan have arrived at Ramstein airbase
    in Germany for medical treatment.



    Nine U.S. soldiers and Canadian journalist Kathleen
    Kenna arrived in Ramstein on Wednesday evening (March 6) on
    board a military transport plane.

    The nine soldiers were injured in America's bloodiest day
    of fighting in the Afghan conflict on Monday (March 4) after
    two army special forces helicopters were forced down by enemy
    ground fire.

    Seven U.S. troops that had died in that incident were
    flown through Ramstein to Dover Airforce base in Delaware on
    Tuesday.

    Kenna, working for Canada's Toronto Star, was seriously
    wounded on Monday when a hand granade was thrown at her car
    while she was covering fighting in eastern Afghanistan.

    All ten injured had to be carried out of the plane in
    Ramstein on stretchers. Their faces were covered for privacy
    and security reasons. Nine were transported away in a bus and
    one in an ambulance to the U.S. Army Landstuhl Regional
    Medical Centre for further medical treatment.


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