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SYDNEY (Reuters) Three U.S. Marines died in an aircraft crash off the coast of northern Australia on Sunday while transporting troops during a routine military exercise, officials said.. Five others were transported to Royal Darwin Hospital in serious condition, Marine Rotation Force Darwin said in a press release...
(0130 GMT), the statement said.. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the incident tragic, saying the Osprey was supporting the Exercise Predators Run 2023 military exercise..
No Australian personnel were not involved in the crash, he said.. Our focus as a government and as a department of defence is very much on incident response and on making sure that every support and assistance is given at this difficult time, the prime minister told a previously scheduled press conference in Western Australia...
Australian and US personnel have stood shoulder to shoulder for more than a century, Albanese and the Defence Minister Richard Marles said in a statement...
Four Australian soldiers were killed last month during large bilateral exercises when their helicopter crashed into the ocean off the coast of Queensland...
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