Tuesday 18th July 2017

Two attacks have been perpetrated in Bwiza neighborhood in central Bujumbura, injuring dozens of people just within one week, different sources say. Fear haunts the residents of the locality

"It was around 8 :30 pm in the night of 16 July when a grenade exploded in the middle of the street nearby "Kubajandarume" bar on the second avenue in Bwiza neighborhood", says N.I, a witness to the grenade attack.

He says the perpetrators of the attack would have been in vehicle that was slowly going along the street separating the two sides of the bar where the victims were seated, quenching their thirst. Both customers and passengers have been affected. "The explosion injured at least thirty people", says a victim of the attack who was hit by the shrapnel from the grenade "We don't know who threw the grenade because it was dark", she says.

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A Burundian soldier on patrol. Photo/Le Pays