Plenty people die for Benin during one thwarted coup wey dem try for the weekend, government announce on Monday after dem hold emergency cabinet meeting.
Early on Sunday, "violent clashes" burst out between the coup plotters and the Republican Guard for the Cotonou residence of President Patrice Talon, and the government say e cause "casualties on both sides."
Among the dead na the wife of the president military chief-of-staff, General Bertin Bada, while General Bada imself get fatal wound for another, earlier attack wey the putschists carry out.
Some coup plotters still dey at large late on Monday, and about a dozen of dem don arrest.
"Attempted to kidnap certain generals"
Secretary-general Edouard Ouin-Ouro talk say the small group of soldiers wey organise the mutiny plan to remove the president of the republic from office, to subjugate the Republic's institutions and to challenge the established order, according to cabinet meeting minutes.
"Dem first try to neutralise or kidnap certain generals and senior army officers," im add.
According to the government, the plotters stage their mutiny for the Togbin base for the capital. Dem abduct on Sunday night the chief of staff of the National Guard, Faizou Gomina, and General Abou Issa, the army chief of staff.
Both men eventually release for Tchaourou, town for the centre wey dey more than 350 kilometres from Cotonou.
"Carried out successfully"
The army "surrounded the Togbin base" on Sunday, where "targeted, surgical airstrikes were then carried out, without exposing surrounding neighbourhoods" to danger, the government said.
Benin say dem receive military assistance for the strikes from the Nigerian army and from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), wey announce the deployment of soldiers from four countries for the region.
Those troops now dey housed for the Togbin base, which according to Ouin-Ouro "has been retaken."
"This operation was carried out successfully, without loss of life," and "the last attackers ... fled," the government stated.
