04-25-2010, 04:25 PM
But it was also an Anzac Day marred by tragedy and accident. In New Zealand, three crew members of a Royal New Zealand Air Force helicopter died when it crashed into a hillside near Wellington on the way to an Anzac Day flyover. A fourth crew member was in hospital in a critical condition.
In Melbourne, an old military truck accompanying the Ceylon Ex-Service Association ploughed into the back of the group in an accident that left seven elderly Sri Lankan ex-servicemen injured, two of them critically. A 90-year-old veteran sitting in the back of the truck was among the injured.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth...5858135523
In Melbourne, an old military truck accompanying the Ceylon Ex-Service Association ploughed into the back of the group in an accident that left seven elderly Sri Lankan ex-servicemen injured, two of them critically. A 90-year-old veteran sitting in the back of the truck was among the injured.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth...5858135523
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