French soldier dies after being shot in head during 'game'

A French soldier has died after he was shot in the head while taking part in a game with other soldiers during a party, according to local media.

Brigadier Alexandre Lanckbeen was critically injured during the incident last Saturday while attending a party involving alcohol at the Percy Military Teaching Hospital in Clamart, west of Paris.

According to French prosecutors, a loaded handgun was discharged during what was described as a game between the soldiers, and a bullet struck Lanckbeen in the head.