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A dozen British troopers have been injured in a significant automotive crash that led to a automobile pile-up throughout a Nato train in Estonia.

A complete of 17 individuals had been reportedly wounded and rushed to hospital following the collision on a motorway within the northern county of Ida-Viru, close to the border with Russia, on Friday.

The troopers had been returning to their base in Tapa throughout a snowstorm when their minivans had been concerned in a chain-reaction pile-up triggered by a two-car crash on the Tallinn-Narva freeway.

It is known that 12 British troopers had been injured and brought to hospital after the incident, though the extent of their accidents has not been disclosed.

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The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) confirmed to The Independent on Tuesday that eight personnel had been flown again to the UK for additional remedy, with 5 of these since discharged and the remaining three nonetheless at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

Overall 17 individuals, together with 12 troopers, had been injured and hospitalised within the wreck, the police and Border Guard Board informed native newspaper Postman.

The British troopers had been deployed to Estonia as a part of Operation Cabrit, the place the UK is main a multinational battle group to discourage Russian aggression within the Baltic states. They work alongside Nato allies from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

In a press release issued on Monday, a spokesperson for the MOD stated: “Several British soldiers deployed on Operation Cabrit in Estonia were injured in a road traffic incident last Friday.

“Following hospital treatment in Estonia, eight personnel were flown back to the UK on an RAF C-17 for further treatment.

“Five have since been discharged and three are being cared for at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. We wish them all a speedy recovery.”