Guinea-Bissau authorities say they are searching for Captain Pansau N’Tchama believed to have commanded the recently failed coup.
The Country’s military source said the country’s northern borders with Senegal were being “strictly controlled”.
“Some fugitives could cross into this neighbouring country. We have put all our units on alert,” the source said on condition of anonymity.
N’Tchama was the head of a commando unit that assassinated president Joao Bernardo Vieira in 2009. He returned last week from Portugal where he had been undergoing military training since July 2009, security sources said.
It was not immediately clear why N’Tchama might have carried out the assault, but the captain is also a former associate of the government overthrown in the April coup.
“The government considers Portugal, the CPLP (the Community of Portuguese Language Countries) and Carlos Gomes Junior as the instigators of this attempt at destabilisation,” said a statement read by Communications Minister Fernando Vaz.
Its aim was “to overthrow the transitional government undermine the political process that is under way with one objective, to bring Carlos Gomes Junior back to power and justify an international stabilisation force”, it said.
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