Loyalist troops in Burundi have arrested at least three leaders of a
failed coup against President Pierre Nkurunziza, a presidential
spokesman said.
Gervais Abayeho said those arrested on Friday
were two army generals, including former Defence Minister Cyrille
Ndayirukiye, and a police general.
Major-General Godefroid Niyombare, who led the coup attempt, was
"still on the run, his whereabouts are not known to us", Abehayo told
the Reuters news agency.
The coup leader's spokesman, Venon
Ndabaneze, confirmed to the AFP news agency by phone that organisers of
the coup had decided to surrender when loyalist troops arrested him,
deputy coup leader Cyrille Ndayirukiye and another senior figure among
the mutineers."We have decided to surrender," coup leader General Godefroid Niyombare also said by telephone, adding that troops loyal to the president were approaching him.
"I hope they won't kill us," he added.
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