Daily Mail: Coup chaos in Guinea as soldiers detain 83-year-old President and close the country’s borders
* Army colonel goes on TV to declare Guinea government is dissolved in coup
* President Alpha Conde, 86, is seen detained and surrounded by coup's soldiers
* But Defence Ministry claims that the attack on presidential palace was repelled
A Guinean army colonel has gone on state television to say that President Alpha Conde's government has been dissolved along with the constitution in a coup.
Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya sat, draped in a Guinean flag with other soldiers by him, as he read a statement Sunday on the uprising on state television, vowing: 'The duty of a soldier is to save the country.'
The group call themselves the National Committee of Gathering and Development vowed to restore democracy and also ordered the closure of the country's borders.
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