The tragedy took place on the beach of the Red Sands, on the night of Saturday to Sunday, Groix, Morbihan, about 2am. A young man of 26 years died, killed by the explosion of a campfire.
evening around the campfire
This is the end of the post noon Saturday that ten young, who are mostly Guidel (Morbihan) arrive by boat on the beach of the island of Groix, off Lorient, for an evening with friends. After drawing up their canvas tents, they light a bonfire on the beach of Red Sands and settle around
The early evening is progressing normally. Friends eat, sing, laugh. After lunch, some of them go to bed, others remain at the fire.
The explosion killed a young man
The drama comes in the middle of the night . It was about 2 am, when the campfire exploded.
The blast is violent. A young man, aged 26, was killed. Several others from the group were injured. Among them, a young man was more severely hit in the face and the leg.
The injured, aged 25, suffered multiple contusions caused by a blast, was transported by helicopter to hospital in Nantes “his life is involved,” , according to police . The eight other young people in shock, were repatriated to Lorient by speedboat from the lifeboat where they were hospitalized. The police state that “victims are from Lorient or neighboring municipalities” .
A team of deminers on site
A security perimeter has been set up on the beach and in sea. Besides the firefighters and twenty gendarmes, the “Group Diving Locker Brest also committed and GRID (deminers Civil Security) “ , say the police.
Prosecutors in Lorient, who also visited the site “diligent investigation for manslaughter,” , said the police.
The assumption of ammunition forgotten
The ongoing investigation seeks to determine the cause of the explosion. One hypothesis mentioned is the presence in the campfire of historical ammunition, medium caliber, in which was an explosive, perhaps forgotten since the Second World War.
According to Erwan Ropars, commander of the gendarmerie group of Morbihan, “ammunition was either buried or young men dug and began a gradual warm-up.”
Another hypothesis “as the boy tried to extinguish them with stones, it is likely that among the stones there was this ammunition” said the commander.
.Des scientific analyzes will be conducted to determine the origin of the metal piece.
” The investigation is moving so to an accident, even if no hypothesis is rejected in the present state of investigations “ still shows the police in a statement.
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