The Independent (Banjul)
June 2, 2000
Banjul - Reliable reports reaching The Independent say two soldiers were killed
and eleven critically injured when an explosion shattered the back of their
vehicle Wednesday morning. The incident happened between the villages of Keur
Samba Sukoto and Keur Malick Choi in the North Bank Division.

The two dead soldiers were identified as one Private Ebrima Jabbi and one Roy
Info, a military trainer of the Guinea Bissau Army. One civilian, Demba Jassey,
was also reported to have been critically injured by fragments from the
explosion. At the time of going to press on Wednesday, the injured soldiers
were said to have first been taken to the Farafenni hospital and later
transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Banjul.

Meanwhile, it had been reliably learnt that the State Guards, who were
travelling from the President's home village of Kanilai, had crossed at the
Bamba Tenda ferry crossing point at around 4.00 am to test some new weapons at
the Polodi shooting range near Kaur in the North Bank Division. Apparently, the
weapons were not properly loaded, thus leading to the fatal explosion.

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