Army enters capital as president and PM freed

Burkina Faso army troops have entered the capital Ouagadougou without resistance and begun negotiating the surrender of coup leaders, police said on Tuesday, as the interim president and prime minister were freed.

"All units (of the army) reached Ouagadougou" overnight, Colonel Serge Alain Ouedraogo, deputy head of the Burkinabe police, said.

"We must now secure the surrender of the (coup leaders) without gunfire or bloodshed," he said.