A driver involved in the race was seriously injured on December 30. It is an “improvised explosive device” which would be at the origin of the explosion of a Dakar 2022 car, according to a source familiar with the matter. An investigation into “attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise” had been opened after a driver and his crew were targeted by an explosion in Jeddah on December 30. The driver, Philippe Boutron, was seriously injured. >
It is an “improvised explosive device” which would be at the origin of the explosion of a Dakar 2022 car, according to a source familiar with the matter.
An investigation into “attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise” had been opened after a driver and his crew were targeted by an explosion in Jeddah on December 30.
The driver, Philippe Boutron, was seriously injured.
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