WORLD : Top Liberia Rebel in Auto Crash
Rebel leader Charles Taylor suffered minor injuries in an auto accident, delaying his departure for peace talks with a rival rebel chief and an envoy to President Samuel K. Doe, an official said today.
Tom Woewiyu, Taylor’s spokesman and defense minister, said the accident occurred as the rebel chief was preparing to leave for talks to be held Monday in Gambia on how to resolve Liberia’s 8-month-old civil war.
The accident was not serious, but Taylor returned to the Firestone Rubber plantation clinic for treatment and to arrange new transport, Woewiyu said. The plantation is 35 miles southeast of Monrovia.
Woewiyu did not say when Taylor would leave Liberia for Gambia.
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