Argentina Vice President Saves Gunship

Security Minister Anibal Fernandez confirmed this. Some television channels have broadcast an image of a person targeting Kirchner's head as it steps down from the car that took him home to the Buenos Aires neighbourhood. The man who did not shoot had approached Kirchner in the waiting crowd to greet him and ask for an autograph.

Reuters writes that Kirchner was not injured.

A man pointed a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Cristina is still alive because, for some reasons that have not yet been confirmed, the weapon ... did not fire,” President Alberto Fernandez said in a televised speech.

The president said the gun was loaded with five bullets.

“This is the most serious event we've had since Argentina turned into democracy,” he said.

Fernandez de Kirchner is on trial on charges of corruption, and hundreds of supporters had gathered outside her home in Buenos Aires when the attack occurred.