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French Legionnaire kills three colleagues in Chad and flees
April 7 (Bloomberg) — A soldier of the French Foreign Legion serving in Chad killed three of his colleagues and is on the run, a military command spokesman said. The man killed two other legionnaires of the French military force and a soldier from the African state of Togo. He fired at his comrades in an irrational act and is now on the run, Lieutenant Colonel Francois-Marie Gougeon, spokesman for the French Army said over the telephone. The priority is to find him. Gougeon said he didnt know whether the soldier left with his weapon. The troops were killed in the military Camps des Etoiles, near the town of Abeche in eastern Chad, he said. The French Foreign Legion soldiers who were killed and the one who shot them are part of a European peacekeeping force in Chad. The Togolese soldier was part of the United Nations force that is taking over operations from the Europeans, Gougeon said. France has 2,100 troops in Chad, he said. There are about 5,200 peacekeepers as part of the U.N.s MINURCAT mission in Chad, Agence France-Presse reported. They are charged with protecting refugees from Sudans Darfur region and others fleeing rebel insurgency in Chad and the northern Central African Republic. Posted by: tu3031 2009-04-07 |
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