Shooting Heard in Guinea Capital of Conakry, Agencies Report

Conakry, Guinea.

Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg

Sustained gunshots were heard on Tuesday in the Guinean capital, Conakry, according to news agencies.

It wasn’t immediately clear who was shooting, according to a Reuters witness, who reported seeing several military pickup trucks carrying armed security forces and a machinegun-mounted armored vehicle deployed around the West African city’s central administrative district.