The West African country of Mali capital, Bamako, 21 military coup, the coup soldiers in succession occupied led yard lighting the state television and the presidential palace, and announced that the regime of President Amadou Toumani Toure has been the end of the state power to the elected government. Chinese Embassy in Mali confirmed, there are three local Chinese-run bar has been to grab smashing the military coup, there were no casualties.
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Occupied the TV station off the air show
21 pm, Bamako, most of the city continuing to the end of five hours of power outage, the center of the national television of Mali near the building came the intensive gunfire.Witnesses said dozens of soldiers to take the light passenger and cargo truck to occupy this area, firing at random in the street, people fled in all directions.
GMT 16:30 (Beijing time at 0:30 on the 22nd) about the coup soldiers occupied the state television building in the building opened fire to disperse the staff.
Reuters reporters said automatic weapon led yard lighting gunfire continued for 10 minutes, the national television and national radio programs stop the broadcast.
Some young people in the building near the watch, some of whom cheered and lit the car tires. The workers have to go home to avoid rare, and the streets deserted. After dark, the urban areas there are still gunshots came.
Invaded the presidential palace unseated President
After the coup soldiers occupied the television, President Toure has issued a statement on Twitter to deny the Mali military coup took place. Toure convened an emergency meeting at the presidential palace. Presidential Guard, the elite paratroopers “red berets” composition, loyal to the military origin of Toure.
22 morning, the military coup to the Office of the President a power offensive. Agence France-Presse reported that the “red berets” was fighting with the coup soldiers, but failed to led high bay block the offensive. Agence France-Presse quoted a soldier as saying the military coup occupied the presidential palace after the seizure of a number of cabinet ministers, including Foreign Minister Maiga and Minister of the Interior Division.
President Amadou Toumani Toure missing. Agence France-Presse quoted a source, then the report, Toure has been successfully fled the presidential palace.
Toure scheduled to step down after the presidential election held on April. In 1991, when the Ren Junguan Dole led the coup, overthrown president Traore handed over power to a democratically elected government. The Toure successful run for president in 2002, win the election again in 2007 after the re-election.
Announced a curfew in the country
Greenwich time at 4:45 on the 22nd (12:45 GMT), the national television screen by several hours of music programs to switch to the scene about 20 soldiers. After several live audio fault debugging a named Konare, the soldiers began to read the statement.
The Konare claiming to be newly established institutions, “Mali to restore the democratic committee,” the spokesman, announced that the agency “decided to perform their duties, the end of the (President) Dole incompetent regime.
Konare said, the military decided that the national security control in their own hands on the grounds that “Government can not afford to defend the country’s territorial integrity necessary equipment led yard lighting to the armed forces.
The statement announced the suspension of the existing constitution of Mali, the dissolution of the government agencies, “solemn commitment” that “once the restoration of unity in the country, to ensure the territorial integrity, and will return power to the democratically elected president”. The statement announced that the Government is expected to resume work on March 27, when not yet reached the officials will be deemed a waiver of the post.