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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Gunmen in Guinea-Bissau on Monday ransacked a private radio station critical of the government, a manager said, in an attack that follows a foiled coup in the West African country last week.<\/p>\n

Masked assailants arrived at the station in the capital Bissau in 4?4s and started shooting and trashing radio equipment, according to one of its managers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey forced me to kneel down and hit me with the butt of the Kalashnikov,\u201d said one of the managers of Capital FM, who declined to be named.<\/p>\n

\u201cA colleague was wounded trying to escape,\u201d he added. \u201cOur equipment was destroyed. We stopped broadcasting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Capital FM is highly critical of the government President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, 49, and considered close to Guinea-Bissau\u2019s formerly dominant African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC).<\/p>\n

Attacks on the station have become more common in recent years. In July 2020, unidentified gunmen also broke into the station and destroyed equipment.<\/p>\n

The most recent incident comes after a coup attempt on February 1 that claimed 11 lives in impoverished Guinea-Bissau. Neither the identity nor the motives of the coup plotters was clear, and the army has launched an investigation.<\/p>\n

Embalo, a reserve brigadier general, took office in February 2020 after winning an election that followed four years of political in-fighting under Guinea-Bissau\u2019s semi-presidential system.<\/p>\n

His chief opponent, PAIGC candidate Domingos Simoes Pereira, bitterly contested the result but Embalo declared himself president without waiting for the outcome of his petition to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, security forces also prevented PAIGC members from holding a meeting in Bissau. Guinea-Bissau, a coastal state of around two million people south of Senegal, has suffered four military coups since 1974, its most recent in 2012. AFP<\/p>\n

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