REBELS KILL NURSE
More Fighting In Algeria (Rec. 8 p.m.) ALGIERS, December 1 A French woman parachutist, serving as a nurse with the Army was shot dead as she leaped from a helicopter to tend the wounded on an Algerian battlefield. according to reports reaching Algiers. The nurse. Miss Jacqueline Domerque, a former national champion woman parachutist, went into action as troops fought a fierce battle with an insurgent band 18 miles south of A’.giersShe was shot through the head. The French forces lost six dead and 18 injured in the battle. Forty-one insurgents were killed. Troops today pursued remnants of the insurgent band. In Paris yesterday, three more Algerians were shot dead in the war between rival nationalist organisations. One was shot down at the entrance to an underground railway station in north-eastern Paris Another, a barman, died behind his bar in a nearby cafe. Each time the gunmen got away.
A third man was found dead on a vacant site on the northern outskirts of the city with three bullets in his chest
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28450, 3 December 1957, Page 15
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