Burundi arrests three in connection with coup attempt..

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.

The arrests came as Nkurunziza returned to the capital Bujumbura days after the attempted coup, officials in the president's office said, adding that he was due to address the nation on Today,

"He is in Bujumbura in a very secure place," an aide to the president told the AFP news agency.
But Burundians say they want proof that Nkurunziza is in the country, whose borders and the airport in Bujumbura had been declared closed by army officers who attempted to stage the coup.

"People say they want to hear the declaration of the president on radio or national television, in order to be sure that he is here in Burundi," Celestine Sadiki, an NGO worker in Bujumbura said...

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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, together with deputy coup leader Cyrille Ndayirukiye and another senior figure among the mutineers.

"We decided to give ourselves up. We have laid down our arms. We have called the security ministry to tell them we no longer have any arms," Ndabaneze said, seconds before he could be heard being arrested.

Source: Aljazeera.