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BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) - The former prime minister of Guinea-Bissau sought asylum at the local U.N. office on Wednesday, three days after he accused the tiny West African nation's president of murder.
Guinea-Bissau's interior minister had issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr. earlier Wednesday. The arrest order followed allegations by Gomes that President Joao Bernardo Vieira was behind the assassination of an ex-military commander last week.
A dozen police officers surrounded Gomes' office Wednesday to apprehend him. But Gomes escaped through a back door and jumped into a car, then drove across town to the safety of the U.N. building.
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