One wounded man managed to escape but the others were pinned down until the armoured car could be sent in.

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Rebels opened fire on an armoured car carrying aid workers and burnt out a second vehicle on a main lakeside road south of Bujumbura, humanitarian staff said on Thursday.

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This device, developed at the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate in Quantico, Virginia, is a microwave transmitter the size and shape of a small satellite dish that pivots on top of an armoured car.

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With the new Bonn government committed to a defence review, Vickers and other disappointed candidates wonder if the whole project might be reconsidered, creating an opportunity for an all-British or a Franco-British armoured car.

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The main reason why Britain has no plausible armoured-car candidate of its own is that, until recently, the army thought the sort it now plans to buy was no longer needed.

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