Feb 20 (Reuters) – A French soldier has died after being accidentally shot in the head during a drunken evening with other soldiers in a barracks near Paris, said the Paris prosecutor on Friday. * The deceased soldier was identified as AlexandreLanckbeen. * Loic Mizon, the military governor of Paris, confirmedLanckbeen’s death in a post […]
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French soldier dies after being accidentally shot in head during drunken evening in barracks
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Feb 20 (Reuters) – A French soldier has died after being accidentally shot in the head during a drunken evening with other soldiers in a barracks near Paris, said the Paris prosecutor on Friday.
* The deceased soldier was identified as AlexandreLanckbeen. * Loic Mizon, the military governor of Paris, confirmedLanckbeen’s death in a post on X on Friday. * The Paris prosecutor said the incident occurred at thePercy Military Training Hospital in Clamart, near Paris, onFebruary 14. * Even though the consumption of alcohol is banned at thesite, various soldiers had obtained alcohol and had beendrinking over the course of the evening. While the soldiers wereplaying a game aimed at testing people’s reactions, a loadedhandgun was discharged and a bullet struck Lanckbeen in thehead. He was taken to hospital but subsequently died from hiswounds. * Four soldiers have been arrested over the incident.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; editing by Philippa Fletcher)