Lesotho: Military coup under way in Lesotho - Prime Minister fled the country
Lesotho’s prime minister has fled the country, after a military coup was launched earlier today.
Prime minister Tom Thabane told the BBC World Service that has left the country, after receiving threats to his life.
Earlier today military personnel surrounded government buildings in the landlocked African kingdom.
“Military police have surrounded State House and there are reports of gunfire,” an unnamed diplomat from the Lesotho capital Maseru told Reuters.