At least six people were killed in a failed attempt to overthrow Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, Reuters news agency quotes state radio as saying.
They included four assailants and two members of the presidential guard.
An army official, who requested anonymity, told AFP that the six were all soldiers – without clarifying whether any had been the attackers.
For five hours on Tuesday, heavily armed men fired on government buildings in the capital, Bissau, where the president was attending a cabinet meeting.
The attackers may have been linked to drug trafficking in the country, the president said.
The former Portuguese colony struggles with massive foreign debt and has become a transit point for Latin American drugs, leading it to be dubbed by some as Africa’s first narco-state.
It has seen nine coups or attempted coups since 1980.
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