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THE VANISHING CONVOY
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Smoke and flames filled the air as the SUV carrying Ethan Voss lay on its side, crushed and burning.

The loud explosions had shaken the entire highway.

But this was no random accident.

The people behind the attack had planned everything carefully.

Two hours before the SUVs left the hospital, a black van had been parked near a small coffee shop along the route.

Inside the van, four men wearing dark clothes and sunglasses were watching the hospital entrance.

One of them, a man with a scar across his cheek, spoke into a small radio.

“They’re moving. Get ready.”

A few kilometers down the highway, another group of men were already preparing the trap.

They knew the convoy’s route perfectly.

Earlier that morning, they had scattered small, black waterproof packages on the side of the road.

To anyone watching, it looked harmless. The men pretended to throw away some trash while walking along the highway.

No one suspected that those “pieces of trash” were actually mines, waiting to explode.
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