US, Kuwait teams to investigate bombing

Kuwait - A US investigation team headed by a general is due in Kuwait today to start examining how a US aircraft killed five US soldiers and a New Zealander in a desert bombing exercise.

"The Americans will be here early on Thursday and investigation work will immediately start," the Kuwaiti Defence Minister, Sheikh Jaber al-Hamad al-Sabah, said yesterday.

He said his country had formed a three-man investigation team of its own.