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Several hundred people are taking part in a white march in Aiguillon in Lot-et-Garonne to pay tribute to the 25-year-old gendarme who was mowed down last weekend by a hit-and-run driver trying to evade a road check. IMAGES
The families of the two children mowed down in June 2019 in the western French city of Lorient arrive at court On Tuesday for the trial of a hit-and-run driver, who has since been convicted of aggravated manslaughter. IMAGES
Kansas City police say a man racing his bike had the worst possible luck within a span of seconds on Thursday. Newser reports the man managed to crash, shoot himself, and get hit by another vehicle at roughly the same time. According to police, 'a weapon in his waistband discharged' during the accident, shooting him in the hip. At that very moment, he was also struck by another vehicle that fled the scene. The man was taken to a hospital with critical but non-life-threatening injuries. Police also say the man was a felon who had a bag of 'suspected methamphetamine' on him at the time.
In the barracks of the 1st regiment of parachute hussars of Tarbes, France's minister for the armed forces, Florence Parly, presides over a national tribute to the two French soldiers who were killed Saturday in Mali. IMAGES
French Defence Minister Florence Parly pays tribute to the 13 soldiers killed in Mali in a helicopter crash. The collision between two helicopters during an operation against insurgents in the country's restive north is the French military's heaviest single loss in nearly four decades. SOUNDBITE