Several people have been killed and dozens wounded after four grenades exploded in the commercial capital, Bujumbura, at around 19:00 on Tuesday evening.
“According to corroborating sources, four grenade attacks were carried out… The first one was reported in the bus parking lot at Ngagara market, commonly known as Cotebu,” the privately owned Iwacu website says.
There are conflicting reports on the number of people killed or wounded after the explosions.
The Ministry of Information, which described the incidents as terror attacks, said that at least two people had been killed.
Iwacu news website reported that four people had died and several others were wounded.
The SOS Médias website reported that six were killed in the attacks.
The ministry said the attackers had been arrested and a probe was under way.
Iwacu reported that a man in possession of grenades and believed to have been behind the attacks had also been shot dead by the police.
SOS Médias said those arrested “had mostly been found in cafés, restaurants and bars around where the blasts took place”.
Following the fallout of a failed coup attempt in 2015, Burundi has continued to grapple with sporadic incidents of violence, most of which are ethnic-based or carried out by the youth wing of the ruling party, Imbonerakure.
Incursions by Burundian rebels based in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are largely confined to the Kibira Natural Reserve in the western region.
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