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. Copyright (c) 2000 The Independent. Distributed via Africa News Online (www.africanews.org). For information about the content or for permission to redistribute, publish or use for broadcast, contact the publisher. >>>\\\///\\\///\\\<<<<<< "Any one man, woman or child can be what they want to be; but be the right thing." -----Burning Spear------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------