Guinea-Bissau's parliamentary speaker Raimundo Pereira took oath as the country's interim president Tuesday, one day after President Joao Bernardo Vieira was killed.
According to the western African country's constitution, Pereira will server as interim president till a new leader is elected. The constitution requires that elections be held within two months.
Guinea-Bissau's President Vieira was killed by soldiers early on Monday after a bomb attack in which the country's military chief was killed.
An unknown number of soldiers apparently launched a retaliatory attack after the armed forces chief of staff, Batista Tagme Na Wai, was killed in an explosion that destroyed part of the military headquarters.
Na Wai, a critic of President Vieira's policy, including some of his appointments, had served in a military junta that toppled Vierira in the 1998-1999 civil war after his rule of 19 years. Vierira returned to power in the 2005 presidential election.