Another one bites the dust in desert race

NEUQUEN, Argentina: The deadly Dakar Rally has been in mourning again with the news that French motorcyclist Pascal Terry had been found dead while competing in this year's race.

The 49-year-old Terry was found dead overnight after the fourth stage of the gruelling spectacle which is taking place for the first time in South America after terrorist threats forced its cancellation last year.

"Officially the result of the autopsy revealed that the French pilot Terry died of pulmonary edema ... which produced cardio-respiratory failure," Julio Acosta, chief of the department of operations of the La Pampa province police, told the official agency Telam.