Angry protesters in Chad tried to storm a French military base over the fatal shooting of a local soldier.<\/p>\n
He had reportedly gone to the Faya-Largeau base in the north of the country seeking medical treatment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
French troops are deployed there as part of anti-terror operations in the region.<\/p>\n
According to Chadian and French officials, the soldier then attacked a nurse with a scalpel.<\/p>\n
“A Chadian soldier who was not in a normal state went to the French army base to get bandaged, picked up a scalpel and wounded a French military nurse,” General Ali Maide Kebir, the region\u2019s governor, told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
“The nurse used his firearm and killed him,” he said.<\/p>\n
A senior officer with French forces told AFP that the military nurse reacted in self-defence.<\/p>\n
“We don’t know the reasons for the attack. The nurse received three scalpel blows to the throat, head and neck but his condition has stabilised,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Chadian and French militaries have launched joint investigations into the incident.<\/p>\n
But the news has upset the local community, triggering the protests outside the base. Chadian soldiers guarding the base prevented the demonstrators from getting inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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