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Moustapha Lô
Moustapha
Lô
was a
Senegalese
man
who
attempted
to
assassinate
Senegalese President
Léopold Sédar Senghor
on
22 March
1967
at the
Dakar Grand Mosque
. Lô was convicted of
treason
, was
sentenced to death
by a Senegalese
court
and was
executed by firing squad
. Lô was the second of two people who have been
executed
by
Senegal
since its
independence
in
1960
.