Military junta now controls Burkina Faso, say soldiers

In this image made from video, mutinous Burkina Faso soldiers walk outside the Guillaume Ouedraogo military camp in Ouagadougou (AP)

More than a dozen mutinous soldiers have declared on state television that a military junta has seized control of Burkina Faso after the democratically elected president was detained following a day of gun battles in the capital.

Captain Sidsore Kaber Ouedraogo said that the Patriotic Movement for Safeguarding and Restoration would work to establish a calendar “acceptable to everyone” for holding new elections.