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Comoros president’s attacker found dead in prison

The attack on the president took place on Friday afternoon during a funeral for a well-known religious leader in a village near Moroni.

Prosecutor Ali Mohamed Djounaid said the dead man was a 24-year-old soldier called Ahmed Abdou from the village of Salimani-Itsandra, where the funeral took place.

He had attacked the president and a relative of the late religious leader with a “kitchen knife”, the prosecutor said, before being restrained and handed over to investigators.

“He (Abdou) was isolated in a cell so that he could calm down yesterday after his arrest. Investigators found his lifeless body lying on the floor this morning,” Djounaid told a press conference Saturday.

“An investigation has been launched to determine the cause of his death,” he added.

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