Mutiny hurls Burkina Faso into chaos
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A Save Burkina Faso movement supporter holds a Burkina Faso flag after it was announced that Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba had taken the reins of the country in Ouagadougou today. More than a dozen mutinous soldiers declared on state television that a military junta now controls Burkina Faso after they detained the democratically elected president following a day of gun battles in the capital.2/8
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Activist Mamadou Drabo, leader of the Save Burkina Faso movement, center, announces to the crowd gathered Place de la Nation that Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba had taken the reins of the country in Ouagadougou today.3/8
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A crowd gathered Place de la Nation celebrate at the announcement that Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba had taken the reins of the country in Ouagadougou today.4/8
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A crowd gathered Place de la Nation celebrate at the announcement that Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba had taken the reins of the country in Ouagadougou today.5/8
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In this image made from video, Burkina Faso mutinous soldiers walk outside the Guillaume Ouedraogo military camp in Ouagadougou today.6/8
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People cheer in support of putschist soldiers near the national television station in Ouagadougou today.7/8
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People cheer in support of putschist soldiers near the national television station in Ouagadougou today.8/8
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Burkina Faso mutinous soldiers guard the entrance of the national television station in Ouagadougou today.
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