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INTERNATIONAL: TAGOGESE OPPOSITION LEADER SURVIVES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

April 22nd 2013 - In the African wikination of Tagog, an assassination attempt against Vincent Ndengu, leader of the Free Alliance and chairman of the Shadow Parliament, was foiled today. Vincent Ndengu, as the leader of the largest opposition party and the resistance authority the Shadow Parliament, is often considered a major figure within the Tagogese Resistance, which opposes the controversial regime of the Conservative Tagogese Party and Kanto Qyto.

The assassin, whose identity is unclear, was seemingly commissioned by Tagpol, the notorious secret service of the Tagogese regime. The assassin snuck into a building in Gogat, Tagog's capital city, where a small-scale Free Alliance conference was being held. He was armed with both firearms and several bottles of neurotoxins. The target, Vincent Ndengu, was in fact not at the meeting, with Ese Ndengu and Ronald C. Jones being the only major Free Alliance members present. From security footage, it has been established the assassin hid in a side corridor, observing the meeting, from 9:58 AM to 10:14 AM. At 10:14 AM, a security guard by the name of Mick Embesu noticed the assassin lurking in the corridor, and approached him. After trying to get past the guard into the main room, the assassin pulled a pistol from his jacket and shot Embesu, before running across the main room towards the fire exit. While in the main room, the assassin wounded three individuals, including another security guard and two civilians, before being tackled by a third security guard and several civilians, who disarmed him. The assassin was held to the ground until 10:22 AM, when paramedics arrived. Mick Embesu, who was of mostly Zambian descent and 32 years of age, was pronounced dead at the scene, and the other casualties were taken away to be treated. The fate of the assassin is unknown, as he was taken away by local police authorities.

In response to the assassination, several international entities, including the Green Party here in Lovia and the government of the Southern Arc Islands, have strongly criticised Tagpol and the Tagogese government, with asylum also being offered to Free Alliance members. Monday Ndengu, brother of Vincent Ndengu, said that "if the situation grows any worse, security and travel arrangements will be made for Vincent, and possibly the rest of us as well".