4 dead in attack on French family
From Times Wire Reports
Four members of a French family were killed during a robbery in eastern Mauritania, police said.
The four, who were on a picnic, were robbed at gunpoint and then sprayed with automatic weapons fire, said Mohammed Ould Lemine, police chief of Aleg, a town 150 miles east of Mauritania’s capital, Nouakchott.
The father of the family survived the attack, but was seriously injured and is being treated at a nearby hospital, Lemine said. Two children were among the dead. No identities were released.
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