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Grenade attacks kill 4 people, injures 27 in Burundi as elections loom

BUJUMBURA: Grenade attacks in Burundi's capital Bujumbura and a northern town close to President Pierre Nkurunziza's home village killed four people on Sunday night, police said, as parliamentary elections and a presidential vote approach.

The attacks are the latest in a string of assaults in the African nation which is facing its worst political crisis since an ethnically fuelled civil war ended in 2005.

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