Soldier charged over grenade attack
A soldier from the 101st Airborne Division has been charged with murder in a grenade attack on officers' tents in Kuwait that killed two.
The charges against Sgt Hasan Akbar, 32, were announced last night.
Officials at Fort Campbell in Kentucky said Akbar was charged on March 25 with two counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder, under military law.
Akbar was also charged with one count each of aggravated arson of an inhabited dwelling and misbehaviour as a sentinel while receiving special pay.
Akbar was returned to the United States last Friday and was being held at an undisclosed military facility.
Akbar is the only person charged in the grenade attack that killed two US officers and wounded 14 other soldiers on March 23.
He was transferred from Kuwait to the military detention centre in Mannheim, Germany, after the attack, then to the United States.
Officials are still investigating the attack, which killed Army Captain Christopher Scott Seifert, 27, and Air Force Major Gregory Stone, 40.
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