{{Presidential guards in Burkina Faso have killed an armed former colleague who penetrated the presidential palace early Saturday morning, sources confirmed Sunday.}}
State television had Saturday said the guards shot and killed an ex-military officer on the premises of the presidential palace after a fire fight.
The slain man, identified as former army corporal Romuald Tuina, had managed to enter the presidential palace’s compound with a Kalashnikov rifle, sources said.
Ex-corporal Tuina, who was assigned to guard the country’s President, had been sacked from the presidential guard service last year.
In an apparent bid to assassinate President Blaise Compaore, sources said the ex-soldier accessed the palace after he jumped over the power generator near the compound’s steel fence.
Sources said he was wearing military fatigues in an attempt to evade surveillance.
It was after he attempted to break into the palace’s arsenal that the guards realised there was an intruder and started firing at him.
During the gunfire,Tuina was reportedly killed instantly.
President Compaore was said to be in the palace at the time of the shooting.
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