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Guinea-Bissau president says many dead after 'failed attack against democracy'

Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in Paris on November 11, 2021. © Ludovic Marin, AFP/File

President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea-Bissau on Tuesday said he survived heavy fire for five hours during an attempted coup which he claimed killed or injured many people in the unstable West African country.

Appearing in a video posted on the presidency's Facebook page hours after gunfire was heard near a compound where he was chairing a Cabinet meeting, Embalo said some of the people involved had been arrested.

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