GUINEA BISSAU PRESIDENT SURVIVES COUPS SCARE

The president of Guinea-Bissau has said he survived a coup attempt after being under heavy gunfire for five hours. According to President Umaro Cissoko Embaló, the attackers tried to kill him and his entire cabinet at the government palace. While noting that many people had been killed in the fighting on both sides, he acknowledged that he did not know the exact numbers as he had been trapped between fire and iron. Without providing much details, he alleged that the attackers were linked to drug trafficking in the country.