French Motorcyclist Killed in Dakar Rally

French motorcyclist Thomas Bourgin was killed in the Dakar Rally when he collided with a Chilean police car on Friday.

Race officials say the incident occurred as Bourgin was traveling from Calama on the Chilean side of the Andes to the start of the seventh stage in Argentina. They say the police car was going in the opposite direction.

Bourgin, aged 25, was lying in 68th place in his first Dakar Rally.

He's the third person to be killed this week in connection with the rally, after two people died when their taxi collided with a Dakar Rally support vehicle late Wednesday in Peru, near the border with Chile.