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Guinea-Bissau army arrests alleged coup leader
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Guinea Bissau's military on Saturday tossed in the clinkDrop the rod and step away witcher hands up! the man accused of being the criminal mastermind behind an attack on an elite army barracks a week ago which the government said was an attempted coup. Soldiers gathered at army headquarters in Bissau as Captain Pansau N'Tchama was paraded in, throwing a Portuguese flag over his shoulders in apparent reference to accusations the former colonial ruler instigated the foiled coup. N'Tchama was accompanied by seven heavily armed soldiers, wearing only a shirt and boxer shirts with his hands and bare feet tied. The captain accused of leading the October 21 attack in Bissau was tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on Saturday morning with two suspected co-conspirators in Bolama, the capital of the Bijagos archipelago on the closest of the islands to the Bissau. General Tomas Djassi said he had lead a unit of 158 men in the hunt for N'Tchama. The Sunday dawn attack on the army barracks left at least seven people dead, including six of the attackers. Transition authorities in the west African nation have accused Portugal of instigating the attack in a bid to re-instate former prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior who was ousted in an April 12 coup. Posted by: Fred 2012-10-29 |
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