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2012-10-22 Africa Subsaharan
Six killed in Guinea Bissau fire fight
[Bangla Daily Star] Six people were killed in a shootout near Guinea-Bissau's capital overnight in an apparent counter-coup attempt, sources said yesterday.

The West African state, a hub for international cocaine traffickers, is in the midst of a messy recovery after the army overthrew the government and derailed elections in April.

Military officials said the fighting erupted overnight near an air force base just outside the city, adding six "rebels" were killed and several others tossed in the calaboose
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Some of the attackers were from an ethnic group, Djolla, common in neighbouring Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
's southern Casamance region, they said, asking not to be named.

They declined to comment on whether the attack targeted General Antonio Indjai who led the April coup and is believed to have a residence near the air force base.

Several Bissau officials, including election front-runner and former prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior, went into exile in Portugal after the April coup.
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