Guinea-Bissau president killed just hours after it's military chief was killed.

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau — Renegade soldiers killed Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira in his palace on Monday, hours after a bomb blast took the life of his rival, the fragile West African nation's armed forces chief.
It was not immediately clear whether a coup was under way, and the capital, Bissau, was tense but calm.
Luis Sanca, security adviser to Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr., confirmed the president's death but gave no details.
A bomb blast Sunday night killed armed forces chief of staff Gen. Batiste Tagme na Waie at his headquarters in Bissau, according to a state radio report.
The two men were considered staunch political rivals.
Guinea-Bissau has suffered multiple coups and attempted coups since 1980, when Vieira himself first took power in one. The United Nations says the impoverished nation on the Atlantic coast of Africa has become a key transit point for cocaine smuggled from Latin America to Europe.
Just hours after Waie's death late Sunday, volleys of automatic gunfire were heard for at least two hours before dawn in Bissau and residents said soldiers had converged on Vieira's palace...more..http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,503005,00.html