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| Bolivia's President Evo Morales says three foreigners have been killed after he ordered police to thwart a planned assassination attempt against him. | Bolivia's President Evo Morales says three foreigners have been killed after he ordered police to thwart a planned assassination attempt against him. |
| Security forces killed three alleged international mercenaries in the city of Santa Cruz, Mr Morales said. | Security forces killed three alleged international mercenaries in the city of Santa Cruz, Mr Morales said. |
| He said intelligence reports had warned of a plot by a group comprising Irish, Hungarian and Bolivian attackers. | He said intelligence reports had warned of a plot by a group comprising Irish, Hungarian and Bolivian attackers. |
| Arriving in Venezuela for a summit, Mr Morales said two people had been arrested over the alleged plot. | Arriving in Venezuela for a summit, Mr Morales said two people had been arrested over the alleged plot. |
| The three were killed in a half-hour shootout at the hotel in Santa Cruz, some 900km (620 miles) east of the capital La Paz, Mr Morales said. | |
| Foreigners killed | |
| "Yesterday, I gave instruction to the vice president to move to arrest these mercenaries and this morning I was informed of a half-hour shootout at a hotel in the city of Santa Cruz," said Mr Morales. | |
| "Three foreigners are dead and two arrested." | |
| He added that the alleged plot had been to kill him, the vice president and a cabinet minister. | |
| Bolivian Police Chief Hugo Escobar said two Hungarians and one Bolivian were killed in the shoot-out. | |
| Earlier reports suggested unknown assailants had attacked the home of the Roman Catholic Cardinal Julio Terrazas of Santa Cruz with dynamite. | |
| Interior vice minister Marcos Farfan said Wednesday's blast, which caused structural damage but no injuries, a "terrorist" act. |