Two harmed after army tank falls 50 metres in Alps

The 31-year-old was airlifted to sanatorium in Munich in a helicopter after a crash, military reported on Thursday. The 24-year-old motorist of a tank was also easily injured.

The pile-up happened in a alpine Tyrol segment of Austria, where a soldiers were on practice on Wednesday evening. The motorist reportedly mislaid his approach in thick haze and a tank rolled over several times as it fell down a hill.

A liberation derrick was brought in to a pile-up site, and usually after it had recovered a tank could a dual group be freed.