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President survives attack

Guinea-Bissau's President Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira survived an attack by renegade soldiers on his home early yesterday, nearly two days after parliamentary election results were announced, a senior UN official said.

"There was a military attack on the president's residence," said Shola Omoregie, the UN Secretary-General's representative in Guinea-Bissau. "The president and his family are OK," he added, after visiting Vieira at his damaged home.

Interior Minister Cipriano Cassama said one presidential bodyguard was killed in the assault and another wounded.

(China Daily 11/24/2008 page7)