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As he was recovering his home with his wife in the evening by 11 p.m., the army colonel got ambushed by armed elements in the process of opening his home’s gate. He tried to call for support from the neighborhood when detecting the waylaying gunmen but immediately got fired at. The army medic colonel, urologist at the Army Hospital of Soavinandriana, got mortally wounded. He is not the first casualty suffered by the armed and security forces as a result of hold ups. A detective superintendant and a general underwent the same fate shortly earlier following the same operational pattern. Some observers directly link this surge of violence to political developments of the four years old crisis in the Great Isle, however without any evidence.
Rampaging insecurity seems to begin to affect police and armed forces personal. An army colonel and medic got shot dead by armed outlaws at his own home gate, and a substantial amount of money in his possession, claimed by his henchmen. He happens to be the third security forces members to have undergone raids in a span of the latest couple of weeks in the outskirts of the capital city.