{{Presidential guards in Burkina Faso have killed an armed former colleague who penetrated the presidential palace early Saturday morning, sources confirmed Sunday.}}<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Ex-corporal Tuina, who was assigned to guard the country’s President, had been sacked from the presidential guard service last year.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Sources said he was wearing military fatigues in an attempt to evade surveillance.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
During the gunfire,Tuina was reportedly killed instantly.<\/p>\n
President Compaore was said to be in the palace at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n
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