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Article: Troops foil coup in Sierra Leone
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 4, 1995
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CHRISTO JOHNSON
Reuters
Freetown - Troops loyal to Sierra Leone's military government
foiled a coup attempt yesterday and six officers were arrested,
military sources said.
A Western diplomat and residents of Freetown, the capital,
reported heavy gunfire in the early hours.
"The government in the early hours with loyal forces foiled a
coup plot in which six officers have been arrested and detained at
the central prison," one officer said. Earlier, senior officials at
Freetown's Pademba road Central Prison said six army officers had
been arrested and brought to the jail, accused of plotting a coup.
Freetown was calm but the road to the prison was sealed off and
military guards around it ...