Assassination attempt on Argentina VP Kirchner fails when gun misfires: president

A man tried to kill Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner outside her home in Buenos Aires, but the handgun misfired, the country’s president said. President Alberto Fernández said, for reasons not yet known, that the pistol did not discharge when the man tried to fire it, despite having five bullets loaded.

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