'Many' dead as Guinea-Bissau foils 'assault against a vote based system'

GUINEA BISSAU 02 FEBURARY 2022 (VOE WORLD) Guinea-Bissau's leader has said the public authority had what was happening taken care of after what the African Union and a territorial alliance called an "endeavored overthrow".

"I'm well, say thanks to God," Umaro Sissoco Embalo said on Tuesday on Twitter. "The public authority has what is going on taken care of."

Embalo said "many" individuals from the security powers had been killed in a "bombed assault against a majority rule government."

Showing up in a video posted on the administration's Facebook page hours after gunfire was heard close to a compound where he was leading a bureau meeting, Embalo said a portion of individuals included had been captured however he didn't have the foggiest idea the number of.

Prior on Tuesday, the state telecaster had detailed that "intruders" were keeping authorities at the structure while witnesses revealed delayed, weighty gunfire.

The 15-country West African territorial alliance known as ECOWAS, previously wrestling with three other military takeovers in part states in the course of the most recent year and a half, considered Tuesday's savagery a "upset endeavor" and said it was following what is going on in Bissau "with incredible concern."

"ECOWAS denounces this upset endeavor and considers the military answerable for the substantial respectability of President Umaro Sissoco Embalo and the individuals from his administration," the assertion said in a tweet.

In Portugal, the country's previous pilgrim ruler, the Foreign Ministry said in a tweet: "We unequivocally censure the assault on the public authority royal residence in Bissau and interest for the prompt finish of this brutal activity against the president and administration of Guinea-Bissau. Established request should be regarded by all."

Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva censured what he said was "outfitted movement" in Bissau.