Former US hostage Thomas Hamill, who escaped from his Iraqi captors over the weekend, has left the country en route to Germany and the United States, a top American official said Monday.
Hamill, 43, of Macon, Miss., pried open the doors of the house where he was being held late Sunday morning and ran a half-mile to a military convoy that was passing by near the town of Balad north of the capital.
The US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Hamill would go first to a US military hospital at Landstuhl, Germany for a checkup before proceeding back to the United States.
A hospital spokeswoman said Hamill was to be reunited with his wife Kellie Hamill on Monday in Germany.
The military has said Hamill is in overall good health, but a gunshot wound to his left arm might be infected. "We have doctors and nurses prepared to give him a medical evaluation as soon as he arrives," said spokeswoman Marie Shaw.
Hamill, a truck driver for a Halliburton Corp. subsidiary, was captured on April 9. (Albawaba.com)
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