A gendarme, on patrol aboard the same canoe with other soldiers, was also slightly injured.
A soldier is missing in Guyana, after accidentally falling from a canoe into the Oyapock River on Sunday, May 7, according to a spokesman for the armed forces in Cayenne. “Research is still ongoing”, he specified. The facts occurred around 9 p.m. local time, the Guyana prefecture added on Monday. She specified that the missing man, boatman in the 3rd foreign infantry regiment, is also the customary chief of the Teko Amerindians of the village of Camopi.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the boat hit a tree while operating at night in unfavorable weather. Three divers were dispatched to Camopi and two helicopters were mobilized, according to the prefecture. A search on Monday was unsuccessful and continues on Tuesday. A gendarme, on patrol aboard the same canoe with other soldiers, was also slightly injured, reported the gendarmerie in Paris.
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