Assailants Extract and Fatally Shoot Injured Person from Ambulance

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced on December 14, 2023, the suspension of its activities in Turgeau following an attack on one of its ambulances. "On Tuesday, December 12, 2023, armed individuals intercepted an MSF ambulance outside the Turgeau Emergency Center. They forcibly removed the critically ill patient and executed him with multiple gunshots before fleeing," MSF stated in a press release.

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Par Le Nouvelliste
14 Dec 2023 | Lecture : 2 min.

The organization clarified that the patient, in critical condition, had been transferred to a hospital offering specialized care. The incident occurred as a convoy of two ambulances left the MSF facility for a joint referral. Armed individuals confronted the convoy near the MSF Emergency Center, creating a barricade, damaging the lead vehicle's hood, firing shots in the air, inspecting the interior, and ultimately executing the patient from the first ambulance at close range.

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