NUN SHOT BY ACCIDENT

Algerian rebels were not responsible
IT has now been established that Sister Pierre Fourier, a White Sister, whose bullet-riddled body was found by French troops fighting Algerian rebels in Kablie, was not deliberately shot by the rebels. She was killed accidentally. The original report was sent by a Catholic news agency. The agency made a correction, but it did not arrive in London until after the publication of THE CATHOLIC HERALD and other Catholic newspapers.
A statement from the mother house of the White Sisters in Algiers says that the two Sisters—the other was Sister Francois Solano, a Canadian — who disappeared from Ighil Ali last month were liberated.
They were being escorted back to their convent by the rebels (F.L.N.) when Sister Pierre Fourier was accidentally killed during a skirmish. as night fell.
Her companion who returned safe and sound. has testified moat definitely to the complete respect they had been given during the whole period of their absence, and also to the fact that Sister Pierre Fourier had explicitly offered her life to God "for peace in Algeria and fraternal union among all."
"The White Sisters formally deny that the deceased Sister was killed deliberately. She was killed in open country, on the Mountainside, during the battle: and anything else that has been said or written concerning this death is false."
White Father shot dead Fr. Hubert Bruchez, of the White Fathers has been found shot dead on the road near Azzazga, Algeria, another victim of FrenchArab friction.
Fr. Bruchez, originally from the diocese of Sion, Switzerland, was 40. He had been working in North Africa since 1944.