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Burundi police seize arms hidden in house ceiling

Xinhua, April 12, 2017 Adjust font size:

Burundian police said they on Tuesday night seized arms hidden in the ceiling of a house at Cibitoke in the north of Bujumbura.

"It was around 22:00 when a man warned a police post that arms were uncovered in the ceiling of a house while a technician was detecting an electric default," Burundian Police Deputy Spokesman Moise Nkurunziza said Wednesday.

Nkurunziza said security forces uncovered two guns, four grenades and 90 ammunitions. Investigations have started to identify who hid those arms and why he did it.

Nkurunziza said early investigations revealed that the occupant of the house was an army officer.

Those arms were uncovered from a neighborhood where protests against the third term of Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza took place in 2015.

Burundi plunged into a crisis since April 2015 when Nkurunziza decided to run his controversial third term in violation of the national constitution and the 2000 Arusha Agreement that ended a decade-long civil war. Enditem