4 killed in Burundi few days to polls

Four persons were killed and 29 people injured Sunday night in Bujumbura and towns to the north in grenade attacks.

The police said on Monday that a grenade attack on a bar in Ngozi town north of Bujumbura killed four people and wounded 27, while a blast in the northern town of Kirundo near a bank injured two people.

Police spokesman Pierre Nkurikiye said a grenade attack in the Musaga district of Bujumbura also wounded one police officer, he said.

Parliamentary elections are due in the crisis-hit country on 29 June, Senate 24 July while Presidential election is due on July 15.

President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to contest for a third term has triggered a wave of protests, an attempted coup d’etat and an exodus of refugees across the country’s borders.