Benin coup attempt foiled by loyalist troops – Govt. officials

Benin’s government says loyalist soldiers and national guards have regained control after a group of soldiers announced on state television that they had seized power in an apparent coup attempt.
This is even as the leader of the matinées, Colonel Pascal Tigri, is said to be on the run
Foreign Minister Olushegun Adjadi Bakari and Minister of Interior, Alassane Seidou,
said in a separate interviews on Sunday that the coup plotters had taken control of state TV only and that the sign