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Three die in Burundi attacks ahead of Ban’s visit

By Editor
23 February 2016   |   1:47 am
Three people were killed in gun and grenade attacks in Burundi, officials said yesterday, just hours before the arrival of United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
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THREE people were killed in gun and grenade attacks in Burundi, officials said yesterday, just hours before the arrival of United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon who is trying to end the bloodshed over President Pierre Nkurunziza’s disputed re-election.

The UN is under growing pressure to show it can halt the violence, two decades after the 1994 genocide of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus by the Hutu majority in neighbouring Rwanda, which has a similar ethnic make-up to Burundi, according to Reuters.

Celestin Singirankabo, head of a district 50 km (30 miles) east of the capital, Bujumbura, said gunmen killed two people late on Sunday when they opened fire in a bar.

Separately, deputy police spokesman, Moise Nkurunziza, said one person had died and another had been wounded in a grenade attack at a Bujumbura market on yesterday morning.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks but the government said there were three rebel outfits fomenting violence, including two made up of renegade soldiers.

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