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Wednesday, 08 October 2008

16 hurt when French troops use live ammo at open day

30/06/2008 10:14:00 AM.  | 
In a bizarre incident in France, 16 people have been injured after live bullets were used instead of blank ones during a Special Forces open day.

A marine parachute regiment was staging the public demonstration when 16 people were struck by the bullets.

Of the 16 people struck, 15 of them were civilians – three people, including a child are in a critical condition

One soldier has been detained - there's still no word on why the wrong ammunition was loaded into weapons.

A regional official, Bernard Lemaire, told France 3 radio, investigators believed the deadly ammunition was loaded by mistake.

"The question being asked is 'did the soldier engage in a criminal act or not?'," Lemaire said. "For now, no one can answer that, but the theory being worked on is one of error."

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