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Grenade explosion injures 15 in northern Burundi: police

Xinhua,May 02, 2018 Adjust font size:

BUJUMBURA, May 1 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 persons were injured in a grenade explosion that happened on Monday night in Kayanza province, northern Burundi, a police spokesman said Tuesday.

An unidentified criminal blasted a grenade around 7 p.m. at Karurusi village in Gatara district, said Burundian Police Spokesman Dismas Manirakiza, adding that seven of the injured were wounded seriously.

Manirakiza said one suspect, identified as a soldier who was recently in the African Union Peacekeeping Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), has been arrested. Enditem

 

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