Gambia: Female Soldier and Husband Found Shot Dead in Their Room in the Barracks

Information reaching Foroyaa revealed that a female soldier, Mariama Camara, who was staying at the new State Guards Barracks at the former Palm Grove Hotel, opposite the Mile Two prison in the outskirts of Banjul, was found dead in her room together with her civilian husband apparently from gunshots.

This fatal incident was said to have occurred in the morning of Saturday, 27 August 2011 at the said barracks where Camara, who served under the State Guards, shared a room with her husband. The reasons for the shooting that led to the death of both husband and wife are still unknown.

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