FREETOWN, Sierra Leone Sierra Leone s president said most of the leaders of the attacks on the nation s main military barracks and prisons over the weekend had been arrested, though the capital remained tense on Monday, with many streets empty after a 24-hour curfew was relaxed to a dusk-to-dawn lockdown.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone Sierra Leone s president said most of the leaders of the attacks on the nation s main military barracks and prisons over the weekend had been arrested, though the capital remained tense on Monday, with many streets empty after a 24-hour curfew was relaxed to a dusk-to-dawn lockdown.
Sierra Leone information minister, Chernor Bah, has said that weekend attacks on several locations in the capital, Freetown, were a failed attempt to overthrow the government. Reuters reports that 13 military officers and one civilian have been arrested following the incident, he told a press conference. "The incident was a failed attempted coup. The intention was to illegally subvert and overthrow a democratically elected government," Bah said.
The West African nation has not identified the military officials and one civilian it arrested after attacks in the capital on Sunday that left 20 people dead and more than 2,000 prisoners on the loose.