Guinea-Bissau 'under control' after foiled coup attempt

The president of Guinea-Bissau reassured residents of the West African nation by news conference from his bullet-scarred home after mutinous soldiers fought their way into the residence in a three-hour gunbattle with his guards.

In an apparent coup attempt, the soldiers attacked President Joao Bernardo Vieira’s home with heavy artillery fire shortly after midnight yesterday, killing at least one of his guards and injuring several others before security forces were able to push them back, Interior Minister Cipriano Cassama said earlier.