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Guinea-Bissau National Guard soldiers freed two members of the government who were being questioned by the police on Thursday night, before exchanging gunfire with special forces, according to military and intelligence sources.
Military and intelligence sources said that the special forces intervened against the national guard
Guinea-Bissau's army said Friday it was holding the leader of the security forces unit involved in overnight clashes in the capital and had the situation under control.Members of the Guinea-Bissau Stabilisation Support Force, deployed in the country by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), were seen patrolling the streets of Bissau on Friday morning, an AFP journalist saw.
Heavy gunfire was heard near Guinea-Bissau's presidential palace overnight and continued on Friday morning, where members of the national guard were holed up in the south of the city. The incident came after soldiers freed a minister from the main opposition party detained for suspected misuse of public funds, a police source said.