Tue Feb 17, 3:49 AM ET
KUWAIT CITY - A bus carry American troops rolled over near a Kuwaiti air base over the weekend, injuring 25 soldiers, four of them seriously, a military spokesman said Tuesday.
The Kuwaiti authorities are investigating the accident, which happened Sunday afternoon near the Ali Al Salem air base, Capt. Randall Baucom told The Associated Press.
The bus had been leased from a local company, Baucom said.
News of the accident emerged on Tuesday after the local newspaper Al-Anba reported it with Kuwaiti sources.
The four U.S. soldiers who were seriously wounded have been admitted to the Kuwait Armed Forces hospital. The other injured were treated at various U.S. camps in Kuwait, Baucom said.
Kuwait has been a major ally of Washington in the area, since a U.S.-led coalition fought the 1991 Gulf War that liberated it from a seven-month Iraqi occupation.
The small oil-rich state was the launch pad for the war in Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in April.