Seventy-two Ugandan soldiers were killed and another 40 injured, many seriously, when their huge truck crashed into a concrete barrier in the east of the country, a spokesman said Monday.The death toll is one of the highest the Ugandan army has suffered outside of combat.
"It was a trailer and the soldiers were changing location from eastern Uganda. Apparently no one escaped unhurt," army spokesman Major Felix Kulayigye said.
The crash happened late Sunday in Uganda's mountainous east, he added.
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