Timor-Leste
President Jose Ramos-Horta is currently undergoing surgery
by an Australian medical team at an ADF military base in the
capital Dili, after being shot during an attack by rebels.
"President Ramos-Horta was shot in the stomach and is
undergoing surgery at the heliport," the adviser, Agusto
Junior, told
Reuters.
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