Three US Marines have been killed and several others seriously wounded after an Osprey helicopter crashed during military exercises in Australia, officials said Sunday.

Of the 23 Marines on board the MV-22B Osprey helicopter, three died while five others have been transferred to a hospital in a serious condition, the Marine Rotational Force – Darwin said in a statement on Sunday.

The Australian police reported that 23 US Marines were injured in the accident and five of them were transferred to a hospital in Darwin, on the mainland in the north of the country and one of them was in critical condition.

Source: Qatar News Agency