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A 68-year-old pétanque subordinate has died aft allegedly being deed with a metallic boule during a quality with a rival squad successful the French Atlantic edifice of Mimizan.
The antheral was reportedly struck aft an statement broke retired betwixt 1 squad that regularly plays connected the formation and different that plays successful town.
The quality started erstwhile the formation radical asked to play successful municipality portion successful hunt of shadiness during a heatwave, witnesses told section media.
An 81-year-old has been arrested and is being held successful custody, according to the Mont-de-Marsan prosecutor's office.
"According to the grounds … it seems that it is the 81-year-old antheral who struck the victim, who is deceased, with a pétanque boule," Alexa Dubourg, the nationalist authoritative successful Mont-de-Marsan, told section insubstantial Sud Ouest.
She said the incidental was "an statement which degenerated into a carnal [confrontation]".
Investigations are continuing to find the relation played by each idiosyncratic successful attendance astatine the boulodrome connected 17 June, she added.
Pétanque is simply a French crippled that involves rolling hollow alloy balls arsenic adjacent arsenic imaginable to a tiny woody ball.
Local vigor presumption Ici Gascogne said the antheral did not instantly dice of his injuries, but alternatively collapsed minutes aboriginal aft suffering a bosom attack.
One section nonmigratory told AFP quality agency: "There is simply a mega rivalry betwixt the formation pétanque players and those successful the municipality but I didn't deliberation it was astatine that level."
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