Protesters set fire to the headquarters of Burkina Faso’s ruling People’s Movement for Progress party in the country’s capital, Ouagadougou, country’s media reported Sunday.
The protesters also broke windows in the build-ing, according to the Faso news portal. The demon-strators gathered to support the military following several riots in the barracks across the country, Agence France-Presse said. The crowd was dis-persed by police using tear gas.
Radio station RFI previously reported that in-tense gunfire was heard on Sunday morning in two military camps in Burkina Faso’s capital city of Ouagadougou. One of the camps hosts a prison where General Diendere, who was convicted for a coup attempt in 2015, is being held. Local radio station Omega also reported that there was shooting in the city of Kaya northeast of Ouagadougou. The government confirmed that there was shoot-ing in the capital, but denied reports that the military has seized power in the country. —APP
