President of Burkina Faso ‘held by mutinous soldiers’

A mutinous soldier fires into the air at the Bobo interchange, near the Lamizana camp in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou (Sophie Garcia/AP)

Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kabore is being held by mutinous soldiers, according to two of the soldiers.

They did not say where Mr Kabore is being held, but said he is in a safe place.