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 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 Friday,
"He is in Bujumbura in a very secure place," an aide to the
president told the AFP news agency. "He will address the
nation today."
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 definitely in Burundi.