The Jerusalem Post reports: An IDF officer and a soldier were killed and four others injured when their heavy artillery vehicle flipped during the course of a training exercise in Israel’s Golan Heights Wednesday morning. “During the night, as part of an exercise in a battalion commanders course in the Golan Heights, an M-109 howitzer vehicle flipped over,” the army said in a statement.
The incident occurred as the vehicle was traveling as part of an armored convoy during a drill for company and battalion commanders on a path near Nafah Junction. The convoy began crossing a road blocked off in order to allow for the convoy to arrive at the training field nearby to continue the drill when the driver made an unexplained turn.
According to the initial investigation the driver reported that his view had been blurred by the headlights coming from a convoy of vehicles opposite their vehicle. The vehicle then overturned into a ditch of 6-8 meters deep at around 2 a.m.
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