Deposed Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has flown out of the capital of Suva to his home island, a day after the military exercised a bloodless coup.
Mr Qarase and his wife Leba were taken from his residence before sunrise and flown to the island of Vanua Balavu to the east of the main island, government and airport sources told Reuters.
The Secretary to the Prime Minister was also escorted at gun point from the Parliamentary precinct.
In the fourth coup in Fiji in 20 years, soldiers barricaded Mr Qarase inside his home on Tuesday before military commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, assumed power and appointed an interim premier.
