BOSNIA: A FRENCH SFOR SOLDIER HAS DIED AND SIX INJURED WHEN THEIR MILITARY VEHICLE LEFT THE ROAD DURING ROUTINE OPERATION

Record ID: 646945

  • Title: BOSNIA: A FRENCH SFOR SOLDIER HAS DIED AND SIX INJURED WHEN THEIR MILITARY VEHICLE LEFT THE ROAD DURING ROUTINE OPERATION
  • Date: 16th September 2000
  • Summary: NEAR NEVESINJE, BOSNIA (SEPTEMBER 15, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. GV SITE OF ACCIDENT; SLV FRENCH ARMOURED VEHICLES AND SOLDIERS IN THE AREA (4 SHOTS) 0.19 2. (SOUNDBITE) (French) LIEUTENANT EMMANUEL DOUS SAYING: "This is where it happened. The vehicle turned over and fell about 80 metres. One solider has been killed and one has been badly injured and five more slightly injured." 0.43 3. HAS CRASH SITE 0.47 4. SLV /SCU VEHICLE TURNED OVER BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD; SCU PARTS FROM VEHICLE CROSS MARKING THE SITE WHERE THE BODY WAS FOUND (9 SHOTS) 1.44 5. MV / SLV SFOR SOLDIERS ON APC'S (2 SHOTS) 1.54 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 1st October 2000 13:00
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  • Location: NEAR NEVESIJNE, NEAR MOSTAR, BOSNIA
  • Country: Bosnia
  • Reuters ID: LVAEM1861BLYIXYLC5MZLDJYHFZ9
  • Story Text: One French SFOR soldier has died and six were injured
    when their military vehicle left the road during a routine
    operation in southeast Bosnia, the NATO-led peacekeeping
    force said.

    The incident occurred at 1145 GMT on Thursday
    (September 14) between the southeast Bosnian towns of
    Nevesinje and Gacko, a spokesman for the NATO-led
    Stabilisation Force (SFOR) said.

    French SFOR Lieutenant Emmanuel Dous told Reuters on
    Friday (September 15) that the vehicle left the road and
    plunged about 80 metres.

    A spokesman for SFOR's Multinational Division South-East
    told Reuters the seriously injured soldier was flown to a
    hospital in Paris immediately after the incident, and an
    investigation to determine the cause of the incident was under
    way.

    Some 20,000 SFOR troops from 40 countries are helping to
    secure peace in Bosnia following the 1992-1995 war between its
    Muslim, Croat and Serb ethnic groups.


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