At least five Fort Hood soldiers died on Thursday and four more were still missing on Friday after rushing floodwater flipped over a military truck during a training exercise at the Texas military base.
Three more soldiers were taken to the hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
The incident comes as the state continues to be inundated by heavy rains that have sent rivers to record heights, only two years after many of them ran dry in a record drought.
Aerial and ground crews were searching the 20-mile creek that winds through heavily wooded terrain on the northern fringe of the base, using aircraft, canine search teams, swift-water rescue watercraft and heavy trucks. Read more…
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