A grenade attack in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura has left four people dead, including a child.<\/p>\n
A government official and witnesses said on Sunday the four were killed late Saturday in a bar in the working class Kinama neighborhood.<\/p>\n
A hospital source said ten others were wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n
In an earlier attack on Saturday “armed criminals” threw a grenade at a police patrol, injuring eight civilians, Bujumbura mayor Freddy Mbonimpa said.<\/p>\n
Another grenade was also thrown at a military patrol, but no one was hurt.<\/p>\n
No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.<\/p>\n
The security situation in Burundi has been unstable since April 2015, when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his bid to compete for a third presidential term.<\/p>\n
The opposition stood against the move, arguing that the president’s decision was in violation of the Constitution, which allows the president to run for two successive terms.<\/p>\n
However, Nkurunziza’s allies said his first term did not count as he was elected by the parliament and not by direct vote to end the civil war in the country.<\/p>\n
Since then, about 200 people have been killed in violence with the situation worsening after Nkurunziza won a third term in the July presidential election.<\/p>\n
Last month, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra\u2019ad Zeid Al Hussein expressed concern that the country risks sliding back into civil war.<\/p>\n
Between 1993 and 2005 around 300,000 people died in Burundi as a result of civil war fought along ethnic lines.<\/p>\n
The small central African state is estimated to have a population of 10.5 million people.<\/p>\n
About 85 percent of Burundi’s population are of Hutu ethnic origin and the rest are Tutsi.<\/p>\n
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