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| Rwanda grenade blast kills two, wounds 16 |
| 2012-01-05 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] A grenade blast in the Rwandan capital Kigali has killed two people and maimed 16 others, police said Wednesday. "Eighteen people were maimed and two died from their injuries," police front man Theos Badege said, adding that that the kaboom took place in the capital's Gasabo district late Tuesday. "An investigation has been opened but no suspects have been placed in durance vile," he added. Security forces have in the past blamed attacks on the FDLR, a Rwandan Hutu rebel group based in neighbouring DR Congo, as well as former security officials in exile. Several people are awaiting trial accused of carrying out grenade attacks in Kigali and provincial towns in 2010. The last grenade attack in Kigali was in March 2011, and injured seven people. Two people were killed in a previous attack in January and seven were maimed, two fatally, in a blast after presidential elections in August 2010. |
| Posted by:Fred |