Niger President Mamadou Tandja was outsted in a coup by the military junta on Thursday. Photo by EPA/BGNES
Ten Bulgarian officers from the special police unit for combating terrorism have left the Niger capital Niamey on a Belgian plane after being trapped in Thursday’s coup d’etat.
Bulgarian and Belgian special police officers, were trapped for 24 hours in a hotel in Niamey after Thursday’s coup d’etat.
The Bulgarian Interior Ministry confirmed that the ten officers had left Niger late Friday.
A coup took place in Niger on Thursday and the president was captured after a gun battle in Niamey.
In a television announcement, a spokesman for the plotters said Niger's constitution had been suspended and all state institutions dissolved.