Argentina: Attempt to kill VP fails when handgun misfires

A man tried to kill Argentina’s politically powerful Vice President Cristina Fernandez outside her home, but the handgun misfired, the country’s president said.
The man was quickly overpowered by her security officers in the incident Thursday night, officials said.
President Alberto Fernandez, who is not related to the vice president, a former president herself, said the pistol did not discharge when the man tried to fire it.
“A man pointed a firearm at her head and pulled the trigger,” the president said in a national broadcast following the incident. He said the firearm was loaded with five bullets but “didn’t fire even though the trigger was pulled.”
The vice president did not appear to have suffered any injury, and the man was overpowered within seconds as he stood among a crowd of her supporters.