Shooting Halts Paris-Dakar Rally
The Paris-Dakar auto rally was stopped temporarily Friday after the driver of a support truck died of gunshot wounds in a village controlled by the Malian army, race organizers reported.
Charles Cabannes of France, who drove a support truck for the Citroen team that was leading the event, was shot in the village of Kadaouane, Mali.
Details were not available.
Cabannes, 34, was a veteran driver in the annual three-week event, in which hundreds of cars, motorcycles and trucks, assisted by support vehicles, race across the Sahara to Dakar, the capital of Senegal.
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