Probe underway into attempt to kill Paraguayan president

[Judi Lynn]

Probe underway into attempt to kill Paraguayan president
+ - 11:04, February 16, 2008

Paraguayan officials are investigating Friday a possible assassination attempt against President Nicanor Duarte with a water bottle containing muriatic acid.

The incident occurred early Thursday in the presidential office of the Armed Forces, where Duarte was meeting military chiefs.

The president suffered only minor irritations of mouth and tonsils after quickly spitting out the water tainted with hydrochloric acid, Carmelo Gonzalez Doldan, Duarte's personal physician, was quoted by Paraguayan daily ABC Color as saying.

Paraguayan Defense Minister Nelson Mora had opened the bottle and served the content in Duarte's glass, said Gonzalez.

Mora also drank the liquid and immediately spit it out.

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[Joanne98]

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