A grenade attack near a polling station killed at least one person and wounded another yesterday as Burundians voted in local elections seen as a key test of stability in this tiny central African nation struggling to emerge from 12 years of civil war.
The attack, coupled with sporadic shooting incidents in Bujumbura Rural province outside the capital and adjacent Bubanza province, appeared to be part of an effort to disrupt the polls there, a stronghold of the Burundi's lone remaining Hutu rebel group, officials said.
"It is clear there is someone who wants to disrupt elections in Bujumbura Rural and Bubanza," army spokesman Adolphe Maniarakiza said. "These are clearly shots meant to intimidate."
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