Troops die
NZPA-Reuter Djibouti Thirty-one paratroopers of the French Foreign Legion J and a five-man French Army i crew were killed yesterday i when their aircraft ploughed i into a mountain south of i Djibouti City, in Djibouti on ! the north-east coast of ! Africa. The plane crashed into Mount Garbi. a 1665-metre peak in the desert in the former French colony. There were no survivors. A French Defence Ministry spokesman said the men had been on an exercise at the start of a four-month training tour in Djibouti, where an. estimated 4000 French troops and foreign legionnaires are stationed under an agreement signed when the territory gained independence in 1977.
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Press, 6 February 1982, Page 8
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