Shooting has restarted in Bukina Faso’ capital Ouagadougou shortly after the army declared on national TV that the interim government had been dissolved.The announcement was made one day after president Michel Kafando and prime minister Isaac Zida were taken hostage during a cabinet meeting at the presidential palace by presidential guard loyal to the previous leader, Blaise Compaoré.
A picture taken on September 17, 2015 shows a TV screen during the broadcast of the speech of Lieutenant-colonel Mamadou Bamba announcing that a new ‘National Democratic Council’ had put an end ‘to the deviant regime of transition’ in the west African state and Burkina’s interim president had been stripped of his powers
The politicians, along two other ministers, were detained by by the presidential guard, weeks before the country is to hold presidential election on 11 October.
Ludivine Laniepce, a journalist based in Burkina Faso, told IBTimes UK that shooting restarted in the capital. She said: “Some soldiers are just shooting in the city centre. The military said it was a coup. People are just running away. They are looking for a place to protest but there are shootings everywhere.”
