A soldier has been missing since Sunday in Guyana, after accidentally falling from a canoe into the waters of the Oyapock River, on the Brazilian border, we learned Monday, May 8 from a spokesman for the armed forces in Cayenne. "During a mission Sunday night on the Oyapock River, a military boatman accidentally fell into the water. He is currently missing. The search is still ongoing," said the communications officer of the Armed Forces in French Guiana, in northeastern South America.
According to a source close to the case, it is a legionnaire. A gendarme, on patrol aboard the same canoe with other soldiers, was slightly injured, said the gendarmerie in Paris, evoking the hypothesis of an accident of the boat that would have hit something.
On 25 March, a French gendarme, GIGN Major Arnaud Blanc, was killed while participating with nine comrades in an operation against illegal gold panning. A man suspected of belonging to a group of clandestine gold mine robbers involved in the death of the gendarme was later arrested.
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