A colonel in the
Ivory Coast army was killed by gunfire as he tested a
"magic" belt supposedly
with powers to protect him from bullets, the
official Ivorian
daily Fraternite-Matin reported Wednesday. It said Col.
Pascal Gbah, 49,
died on the spot Monday night near the western town
of Aboisso after
being hit by a bullet fired from his own service pistol by
a 20-year-old son
of the magic belt's maker. The newspaper quoted
Ghah's cousin Andre
Gondo who made the belt as insisting that its
protective powers
were real, provided one abstained from sex while
wearing it. Gbah,
who was an electronics engineer in the army, is
survived by a wife
and six children. An army spokesman said Gondo
had been arrested
but that his son was on the run.
A bicyclist who
confronted three well-dressed men walking to their
hotel in Alexandria,
Virginia, pointed what looked like a 9 mm
semiautomatic handgun
at them and demanded money. The three men
turned out to be
off-duty federal agents, who drew their own weapons
and fired more than
20 shots, hitting the would-be robber, as well as
three cars, a truck,
two homes and an office building. The injured
suspect's weapon
turned out to be a pellet gun.
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