Burundi grenade attacks hurt police

Four people are killed and 30 wounded in a wave of grenade attacks overnight in Burundi, police say, a week before parliamentary elections.

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Heavily armed attackers have launched co-ordinated assaults on army barracks in Burundi.

Few weeks after Ikwiriri tragic incident which took lives of two police officers another incident occurred on 2nd February 2015 at Mgeta Police Station in Kilombero Morongoro. In the recent incident in Kilombero again the ganstar took on SGM with magazine of 30 shells. We strongly condemn the increasing invasions of police stations and the killings of police officers in the country. As the same time we also condemn the incident between police and CUF in Dar es Salaam.