4 killed in separate violence incidents in Burundi

At least four persons including two in the Burundian capital Bujumbura and two others in the country's northern province of Ngozi were killed Saturday night in separate incidents, police sources told Xinhua on Sunday.

"In Kinama neighborhood (north of the capital Bujumbura), a local administration authority was shot dead and in Cibitoke (north of the capital Bujumbura), another person was shot dead by unidentified people," said Burundian Police Spokesman Pierre Nkurikiye.

According to him, heavy gunshots and grenade explosions that were heard in Musaga neighborhood, in the south of the capital Bujumbura, targeted a police post at Musaga zone.

He did not however reveal damages caused by the gunmen's attack against the police post.

In the northern province of Ngozi, two persons were Saturday night shot dead in a bar while another one was seriously injured after three gunmen opened fire opened fire on them, according to Burundi National Radio.

The Burundi state-run radio reported that the gunmen urged people who were in the bar to give them valuable objects including money and mobile phones, but the people refused and instead asked them their identity cards.

The radio reported that those gunmen then opened fire, killing two persons on the spot and seriously injuring another before running away. Endit