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Reuters
Politics

Gunmen fired on Guatemalan military guarding presidential entourage, Giammattei unharmed

Guatemalan military exchanged fire with the passengers of a car as it approached the entourage of President Alejandro Giammattei's on Saturday, though he was elsewhere at the time of the incident and is unharmed, an army spokesman said.

Giammattei was in a location two kilometers from where the shots happened, the army spokesman said, adding that one of the gunmen was injured in the confrontation.

(Reporting by Sofia Menchu, writing by Cassandra Garrison; editing by Stephen Eisenhammer)

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