Twelve British soldiers injured in major traffic pile-up

Twelve British soldiers were injured successful a large postulation pile-up successful Estonia, adjacent to the borderline with Russia, section media person reported.

Eight of the troops - portion of a large NATO ngo to deter Russian aggression - were airlifted backmost to the UK for infirmary attraction connected Sunday aft the incident, which happened successful snowy conditions connected Friday, it is understood.

Five of these unit person since been discharged with 3 inactive being kept successful the subject helping of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital successful Birmingham.

The clang happened astatine an intersection astatine astir 5pm connected Friday erstwhile the troops were travelling successful 3 minibuses backmost to their basal astatine Tapa.

Two civilian cars, driven by Estonians, are thought to person collided, triggering a concatenation reaction, with 4 different vehicles - comprising the 3 service Toyota minibuses and a 3rd civilian car - piling into each other.

According to section media reports, the cars that initially collided were a Volvo S80, driven by a 37-year-old pistillate and a BMW 530D, driven by a 62-year-old woman.

The Estonian Postimees quality tract reported that 12 British soldiers were injured arsenic good arsenic 5 civilians. They were each taken to infirmary by ambulance.

The British troops are serving successful Estonia arsenic portion of Operation Cabrit, the UK's publication to NATO's "enhanced guardant presence" mission, which spans nations crossed the alliance's eastbound flank and is designed to deter attacks from Russia.

Around 900 British troops are deployed successful Estonia, including a portion of Challenger 2 tanks.

Sky News has approached the UK Ministry of Defence for comment.