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Burundi authorities arrest three generals over coup

"Burundi Authorities have arrested three generals for involvement in attempted coup," the Presidential spokesman says.

Meanwhile President Pierre Nkurunziza returned to Burundi on Thursday, his office said, after the army chief declared that an attempted coup staged when the east African leader was abroad had failed.

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