A male that struck Comoros President Azali Assoumani with a blade, injuring him a little, has actually been located dead behind bars in uncertain situations, the general public district attorney stated on Saturday.
The assault happened on Friday mid-day throughout a funeral service for a widely known spiritual leader in Salimani-Itsandra, a town near the resources Moroni.
Prosecutor Ali Mohamed Djounaid stated the dead guy was a 24-year-old soldier called Ahmed Abdou from the very same town where the assault happened.
He had actually attacked the head of state and a family member of the late spiritual leader with a “kitchen knife”, the district attorney stated, prior to being limited and turned over to detectives.
“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 informed an interview Saturday.
“A doctor declared him dead.”
The federal government decreased to information the head of state’s injuries, claiming just that he required “stitches to his scalp”.
Government spokesperson Fatima Ahamada stated Saturday that 65-year-old Azali went to home with his family members and “doing very well”.
She was talking at an interview in the visibility of virtually the whole federal government and the guvs of 2 of the Comoros island chain’s 3 islands.
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Djounaid stated Abdou relapsed by the head of state’s safety information and turned over to detectives however the last did “not have time to question him” prior to he passed away.
“An inquiry is underway into the reasons for the young man’s attempt on the president’s life.
“There will certainly additionally be a query right into the situations of his fatality,” the prosecutor added, though there was no indication an autopsy had been carried out.
The young man’s body was handed over to his family and he was quickly buried according to Muslim tradition, a family source said on condition of anonymity.
The vast majority of the Comoros archipelago’s 870,000 inhabitants are Muslim.
“The interment happened in a hefty environment before a huge, mainly young group,” Daoudou Abdallah Mohamed, head of the Orange opposition party, told AFP.
“There’s a sensation of incomprehension in the town,” he said, asking that ” light be lost on the situations and problems” of his death.
Authorities said Abdou had been in the military police for two years and had failed to return to his unit on September 11 after being given 24 hours’ leave.
A witness at Friday’s funeral for the late religious leader, who asked to remain anonymous, said he had been ” like insane”.
“He aggressed the president, striking him initially with a blade and after that with his hands.”
If another mourner had not intervened, ” I assume the head of state would not have actually run away securely,” he stated.
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