Twenty-three US Marines were injured during military exercises in northern Australia on August 27, officials said, in a helicopter crash that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called "tragic", Report informs referring to Reuters.
Five Marines had been transported to Darwin and efforts were underway to take all the injured there, after their Osprey crashed on the remote Tiwi Islands after 9 a.m. (0100 GMT), said Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy.
"We are doing everything we can to return them safely to Darwin for treatment," Murphy told a press conference in the territory's capital Darwin, adding that Australian Defence Force and the U.S. Marines were involved in the effort.
One marine was being operated on at Royal Darwin hospital and four others were at the hospital, said Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles.
"We have more arriving as we speak... Some people are critically injured," Fyles told the news conference, adding there was a "wide range" of injuries.