Argentina vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, one of Latin America’s best-known politicians, has escaped an assassination attempt after a man pointed a loaded gun at her head which failed to fire.
“Cristina is still alive because, for some reason, the gun which was loaded with five bullets did not fire, despite the trigger being pulled,” President Alberto Fernández said in an emergency television broadcast on Thursday. “This is something enormously serious. It is the most serious thing which has happened since we recovered our democracy.”
Video footage showed a pistol being pointed from a crowd at the vice-president’s face at close range as she emerged from a car outside her residence in the Buenos Aires suburb of Recoleta.
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