9th Soldier Killed in Floods at Ft. Hood has Been Identified

An Army and Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter search Lake Belton Friday, June 3, 2016, for four missing soldiers from U.S Army’s Fort Hood that were swept away in a low water crossing during training when the Army vehicle they were in was swept away on Thursday. Five soldiers were killed, four are still missing and three were rescued on Thursday. (Rodolfo Gonzalez/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

A 25-year-old specialist from California was the ninth soldier at the Fort Hood Army post killed last week when a military vehicle overturned in flood waters, officials said on Sunday.

Yingming Sun was among those who died when a military vehicle overturned in a flood-swollen creek on June 2 at the military post in central Texas, the Fort Hood base said in a statement. The names of the other eight soldiers killed in the incident were released on Saturday.

Three soldiers were rescued from the water and survived. The accident that occurred at a low-water crossing during a training exercise remains under investigation by the U.S. Army.

Torrential rains that deluged Texas last week resulted in at least 16 weather-related deaths.

(Reporting by Letitia Stein in Tampa, Fla.; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli)

SOURCE: Reuters