Myanmar's military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically-elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Other senior figures from the country's ruling party were detained in what the party's spokesman called an early morning raid.

On military-owned TV, the Myanmar army declared a state of emergency, saying that they had made arrests in response to allegations of election fraud.

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