Border deployment vehicle accident kills two service members, third in critical condition

WASHINGTON – Two work members deployed to the U.S. Southern borderline were killed and a 3rd is successful superior information aft a conveyance mishap adjacent Santa Teresa, New Mexico, the subject announced precocious Tuesday.

The portion wherever the mishap took spot is conscionable implicit the authorities enactment and westbound of Fort Bliss, a large Army installation successful West Texas that has played a captious relation successful dispatching subject deportation flights and served arsenic a touchpoint for thousands of soldiers and pieces of instrumentality present deployed on the border.

The troops are deployed determination successful enactment of President Donald Trump’s enforcement bid to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.

A defence authoritative speaking connected the information of anonymity to supply further details not yet made nationalist said the mishap occurred successful a civilian vehicle, but nary civilians were harmed successful the incident.

The incidental did not impact immoderate of the scores of Stryker vehicles the Pentagon has sent down to the borderline to execute patrols, the authoritative said.

The mishap occurred astir 8:50 a.m. MDT Tuesday; the names of the deceased volition not beryllium released until the adjacent of kin are notified.

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