French soldier dies after being accidentally shot in head during drunken evening in barracks


Feb 20 (Reuters) - ⁠A French soldier has died after ⁠being accidentally shot in the ‌head during a drunken evening with other soldiers in a barracks near Paris, said the ​Paris prosecutor on Friday.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; editing by Philippa Fletcher)

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