(VOVworld) - The UN Security Council on Friday voiced its serious concern at the ongoing tensions and unrest in Burundi, and stressed the urgent need for dialogue and reconciliation among all Burundians to resolve the current crisis in a peaceful, transparent and inclusive manner.

Boys walk behind patrolling soldiers in Bujumbura, Burundi, May 15, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]

Burundi was plunged into chaos Wednesday as former head of Burundi's National Intelligence Major General Godefroid Niyombare announced in a radio station that the army had overthrown the president and stakeholders were working on a transitional government.

According to the UN Refugee Agency, more than 105,000 people have fled Burundi to neighboring Tanzania, Rwanda and to the province of South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.