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NAIROBI, (APP/AFP) – At least one person was
killed and seven others hurt when a grenade was hurled into a market in Burundi’s capital on Monday, the latest in a string of similar attacks, the city’s mayor said.
“Armed criminals on motorcycles threw a grenade in the Kwa Siyoni
market.
One person was killed on the spot and seven others wounded,” Bujumbura
mayor Freddy Mbonimpa told AFP.
He denounced it as a “terrorist act targeting peaceful citizens”. \
Witnesses said the blast caused panic.
Bujumbura has been hit by a wave of grenade attacks by assailants on
motorbikes, leading the mayor last week to slap a ban on the use of the popular mode of transport in the city.
Grenade blasts have become commonplace in the capital, but it remains
unclear who carries out the attacks, which have increased in the past three
weeks. Security forces, rebels and opposition all blame each other for the
killings.