At approximately 0625 EST, initial reports indicated that ammunition had exploded at the Libava Military Training Area in the Czech Republic.
?ešíme vážnou nehodu ve vojenském výcvikovém prostoru Libavá, kde vybuchla zatím blíže neur?ená munice. Na míst? jsou bohužel zran?ní. Snažíme se poskytnout co nejrychlejší pomoc, zasahuje vrtulník záchranné služby. Událost ?eší Vojenská policie.
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By 0635 EST, Czech officials confirmed that five servicemembers were injured in the blast. However, by 0730 EST, that number had increased to nine, with eight of those servicemembers requiring hospitalization.
By 0930 EST, the Czech government confirmed one of those servicemembers had succumbed to their injuries, changing the toll from one killed, seven injured, and one of the servicemember member casualties had been reclassified as a civilian employee injured.
B?hem výbuchu ve vojenském výcvikovém prostoru Libavá zem?el jeden voják z povolání. Dalších sedm voják? z povolání a jeden ob?anský zam?stnanec bylo p?evezeno do vojenské a fakultní nemocnice v Olomouci. Rodiny zran?ných a zem?elého vojáka byly vyrozum?ny. Ve?ejnost budeme o… pic.twitter.com/FFUiNfj7Uo
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By 1200 EST, Czech Defense Minister Fiala confirmed that the incident was purely an accident and was not related to foreign sabotage, a claim circulated online as users attempted to relate this to previous reports of Russian sabotage in Poland and Germany.
Libava is one of four military training centers in the Czech Republic.
