Coup put down in Ivory Coast as top cop killed

Friday, September 20, 2002

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Loyalist forces put down an attempted coup Thursday in which the minister in charge of police was killed along with a former junta leader who the government said was involved in the revolt that was staged while the president was out of the country.

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