4 International Soldiers Among Missouri Flood Victims, Sheriff Says

[KoKo]

Source: http://www.wunderground.com/news/soldiers-lost-in

4 International Soldiers Among Missouri Flood Victims, Sheriff Says
weather.com
Published: December 28, 2015

Four soldiers from another country who were temporarily stationed at Fort Leonard Wood are among the eight people who have died in flooding in the state, a Missouri sheriff says.

Pulaski County Sheriff Ronald Long said in a statement late Sunday night that a witness saw a car drive into a flooded roadway a day earlier. It was swept downstream. First responders found two men inside the sedan who apparently had drowned, and the bodies of two other men who had been in the car were t)

Long says the victims were "international soldiers" who were temporarily stationed at the central Missouri Army base for training. They were not immediately identified, pending notification of their families by the U.S. State Department, and the statement did not give their nationalities.

A message seeking further information was left with the base's media affairs department.

Long says it's possible that a fifth person was in the car because an acquaintance of the soldiers' is missing.

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. How weird to come to the US to meet your demise.

I am wondering how many of theses "international soldiers" there are on bases here.

[Paladin]

2. Oh, well, it could have been worse. They could have died in Texas. (nt)

[trillion]

3. ?

[LanternWaste]

5. Imaginary borders to tend to attract the imaginary thinker.

Imaginary borders to tend to attract the imaginary thinker.

[Paladin]

6. There's nothing imaginary about DU Texas bashers....

utilizing the recent tornado deaths in the Dallas area to trash the entire population of the state. That was the point of my earlier post, here.

[trillion]

4. I can't remember ever reading about US soliders dying in floods.

I wonder if these international soldiers knew the dangers of being swept away. I wonder if they even knew how to swim although I doubt they would have had a chance to even had they got out of the car because many floods have undercurrents as they're actually enlarged rivers.

[deathrind]

7. Sad to read this.

Do NOT drive into a flooded roadway. It's not that difficult to understand but people do it all the time...

[tabasco]

8. I went to basic training at Leonard Wood a long time ago.

Definitely an area with gullies and draws subject to flash flooding.

[Humanist_Activist]

9. Remember, even water as shallow as a foot deep is enough to turn your car into an unpowered...

temporary boat that's subject to currents. People die all the time being swept from the road into ditches, creeks and rivers.

[vinny9698]

10. Happens here in Houston everytime there is major rainfall

You would think after seeing people drown from driving across flooded streets that they would learn. Every storm there are stories on local TV about people losing their lives in those flooded streets. But come the next storm more deaths by flooded streets.