Police and media accounts revealed that a series of explosions blasted Burundi’s economic hub on Monday evening, killing at least three people and injuring scores more.
The explosions in Bujumbura came after a deadly grenade explosion in a pub in Gitega, Burundi’s capital, on Sunday and a series of mortar attacks on the country’s international airport on Saturday night.
According to a police source and eyewitnesses, at least two bombs exploded in a bus parking area in Bujumbura’s city center on Monday about 7 p.m.
“One of the victims was killed and 29 others injured, some seriously,” the police official said on condition of anonymity, giving a provisional toll.
The blasts triggered panic among bus drivers, passengers and pedestrians, who frantically tried to escape the carnage.
The third blast targeted a market, killing at least two people and injuring several others, the Iwacu newspaper reported.