Ivory Coast PM's plane attacked
Soro escaped unhurt in the attack on his aircraft
as it was landing at Bouake [AFP]
Ivory Coast's prime minister has survived at rocket attack on
his aeroplane as it attempted to land at an airport in the centre of the
country.
Three other people were killed, but a senior prime
ministerial adviser has said that Guillaume Soro had escaped unhurt.
The plane was landing at Bouake in the centre of the country,
Soro's stronghold, when it came under attack.
"The plane carrying our delegation was attacked with a
rocket, at about 10.30am (1030 GMT), while we were landing at Bouake," Alain
Lobognon, an adviser to the prime minister, said.
Allan Aliali, a journalist for the Notre Voie newspaper of
the president's party, told UN radio: "In the prime minister's cabin I could
see three dead bodies that I could not identify."
Soro was named prime minister in April after signing a peace
deal with Laurent Gbagbo, the president, but have said that some factions in
his New Forces group had branded him a traitor.
The New Forces rebels seized the north of the West African
country during a brief 2002-2003 civil war
A Reuters news agency reporter later saw Soro arrive unharmed
at the group's headquarters in the town, although other members of his
entourage had visible injuries.
According to a Soro aide, shooting was heard in Bouake
following the attack.
Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister issued as
statement saying: "France strongly condemns this cowardly attack and reaffirms
its solidarity with the whole Ivory Coast nation and people."
France, which ruled Ivory Coast until independence in 1960,
has troops stationed in the country to support a United Nations peacekeeping
force.
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