Guinea Bissau president says several injured, killed in failed coup

Guinea Bissau’s president Umaro Sissoco Embalo said Tuesday that people had been seriously injured or had died in a failed coup in the perennially unstable West African nation.

“The attackers could have spoken to me before these bloody events that have seriously injured many and claimed lives,” he said, without clearly indicating who was behind the unrest.

But Embalo said the failed putsch was linked to decisions taken by him “notably to fight drug trafficking and corruption”.

AFP