Prosecutors with the Military Prosecutor's Office with the Bucharest Military Tribunal have opened a criminal case investigating the accident in Arges County that killed three servicemen, after a truck capsized in a ravine.
A military truck carrying 13 soldiers of the 30th Mountain Troops Battalion capsized Thursday evening around 21:00, in a ravine at Valea Urdei, Arges County.
The truck, the last one in a line of four, was driving from Cincu to Campulung, when it capsized near Valea Urdei.
Three servicemen died and the others were injured.
The Defence Ministry released the names of the three dead soldiers. They are Master Sergeant Mihai Ionut Toma, Corporal George-Emilian Catana and Corporal Petre Cristian Toader.
Toma, 38, was single. He had been deployed twice to Afghanistan, having been employed by the Romanian Defence Ministry since 2002.
Toader, 32, was married, with one child. He had been employed by the Defence Ministry since 2008 and conducted a mission in the theater of operations in Afghanistan.
Catana, 40, had been employed by the ministry since 2002. He was married, with one child.
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