MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 02nd February, 2022) Some people involved in the attack on the government house in Guinea-Bissau have been arrested, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said in a video address.
On February 1, a group of people in civilian clothes, armed with machine guns and grenade launchers, attacked the house of the government of Guinea-Bissau in the capital of the country, Bissau, where a meeting of the Council of Ministers was being held.
Earlier, the Russian embassy in Guinea-Bissau told Sputnik that rebels had taken Embalo hostage. After a fierce five-hour firefight, he was liberated and taken to the presidential palace.
