'I have been deposed,' Guinea-Bissau's President Embalo confirms to FRANCE 24

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00:00Panic on the streets of Guinea-Bissau's capital, near the presidential palace and electoral commission headquarters.

00:07As gunfire rings out and armed soldiers take control of roads.

00:13Then a group of army officers appears on national television to say they seized power.

00:19The high military command for the restoration of national security and public order

00:26has decided to immediately depose the president, close all institutions of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau until further notice,

00:37immediately suspend the ongoing electoral process, close land and sea borders and national airspace.

00:45They said they were reacting to the discovery of an ongoing plan to destabilize the country.

00:51The move came a day before provisional results from a tense election were due to be announced in a tumultuous West African country,

00:58which has experienced four coups since independence.

01:01President Umaro Sisoko Mbalo, who was seeking to win the second term, told France 24 in a brief phone call that he had indeed been deposed.

01:10He said he was at military headquarters and was not free to talk.

01:14Both he and his political opponent Fernando Diaz had claimed victory Tuesday after the first round of voting on Sunday.

01:21Former Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira told Reuters that Diaz was safe in Bissau and had nothing to do with the incident.

01:29I might always claim to do because they are out of elections particularly in the opposition to the sound of their family,

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01:45The truth has been taken and said to them and His dear Abby be recognized.

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