French soldier missing in Sudan
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A French soldier with the European peacekeeping force in Chad was missing and another was wounded after their vehicle accidentally strayed into neighboring Sudan, a French Defense Ministry official said.
A recovery effort was met with hostile fire, said Commandant Dan Harvey, a spokesman for the EU peacekeeping force. It was not immediately clear who fired on the soldiers.
It was the first known incident since European Union Forces began protecting refugees from Sudan’s Darfur region.
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