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Six dead in failed counter-coup

BISSAU: Six people have been killed in a gun battle at an airforce base near Guinea-Bissau's capital, in an apparent failed counter-coup.

The tiny former Portuguese colony on Africa's west coast is in the midst of a messy recovery after the army overthrew the government in April, derailing elections.

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