JUST IN: At least one West Point Military Academy cadet is dead, and at least 20 other cadets and two soldiers were injured this morning in a vehicle accident near a training site, the academy says
West Point said Thursday morning there had been"an accident in the vicinity of the Camp Natural Bridge training site."Earlier Thursday, a person reached on the West Point Military Police line said the accident involved an armored personnel carrier. Katie Felder, a spokeswoman for West Point, told CNN there was an accident but could not immediately provide further details.There has been an accident in the vicinity of the Camp Natural Bridge training site.
— U.S. Military Academy June 6, 2019 New York state trooper Steven Nevel said troopers were headed to the location of the accident as needed.The US military academy is located in New York, a 45-minute drive away from New York City, according to the academy.Read MoreRetired Major Gen. James"Spider" Marks, a CNN military analyst, said cadets go to the site during the summer for"vigorous military training.