Outside military tanks and armoured vehicles are on the streets with thousands celebrating that they say is the fall of the government.

Burundian presidential spokesman Willy Nyamitwe says President Pierre Nkurunziza is in fall control of the country even though he’s abroad attending a regional summit in Tanzania.

Nyamitwe says he’s aware of the announcement by Major General Godefroid Niyombare that the president’s been sacked for violating the consitutution by seeking a third term in power.

The spokesman says authorities are looking for the general.

In Dar es Salaam, leaders at the summit are resigned to achieving a result far less than what they were looking for.

The best they can hope for is the earliest return to democracy in Burundi.

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State radio insists the attempted coup has failed.

However it’s surrounded by army units trying to get in.

Bujumbura prison has been broken open and protestors held while demonstrating against President Pierre Nkurunziza bid to get an unconsistitional third term in power have been freed.

Gunfire rings out from the street at the capital as rival military units contest for control of it.

Police, who traditionally supported the president, have disappeared from the street.

Major General Godefroid Niyombare, who was sacked by Nkurunziza in January, says he’s ousted the president and suspended parliament.

Nkurunziza’s at a regional summit in Tanzania called to discuss the crisis in Burundi.

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