Banjul

A chartered flight Wednesday carrying the “Scorpions” returned to Gambia’s capital Banjul after being airborne for nine minutes when the crew realized there were technical problems, Gambia’s Football Federation said in a statement on Facebook.

Despite the experience on board the aborted flight, The Gambia chose to train upon their return to Banjul on Wednesday night, even though some of the squad were unable to do so.

The discovery was made on board a Tui flight that had travelled from The Gambia's capital Banjul on 7 December.

The funeral rites in the capital, Banjul, were conducted at a monument originally built to commemorate Mr Jammeh's coup.

The highest rainfall measured in that period was 10.87 inches at Banjul airport, beating a 1998 record of almost 7 inches, it said.