In an emailed statement cited by The Associated Press, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said “the vast majority of these injuries have been minor”, with 108 having “already returned to duty”, Al Jazeera reports.
He put the number of US service members “severely injured” at eight.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt also suggested a similar toll, confirming during a briefing that an earlier Reuters report that as many as 150 US troops had been wounded was in the right “ballpark”.
