Photo: President Joao Bernardo Vieira was trying to escape when he was "taken down by bullets," an military spokesman said. Photo from AFPFrom Yahoo News/AP:
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau – Renegade soldiers assassinated the president of Guinea-Bissau in his palace Monday, hours after a bomb blast killed his rival, but the military said that no coup was in progress in the fragile West African nation.
The military statement broadcast on state radio attributed President Joao Bernardo Vieira's death to an "isolated" group of unidentified soldiers whom the military said it was now hunting down.
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