Retaliatory attacks between President Pierre Nkurunziza's security
forces and his opponents have escalated since April 2015 when he
announced a disputed bid for a third term and then won re-election in
July.
Attackers armed with guns and
grenades burst into a bar and opened fire, killing a woman and seriously
wounding three other customers in Burundi's capital Bujumbura on Monday night, police said.
Officers
said they were still investigating the motive for the attack in Ngagara
neighbourhood, near a base housing police officers in charge of
protecting government offices.
Retaliatory attacks between President Pierre Nkurunziza's
security forces and his opponents have escalated since April 2015 when
he announced a disputed bid for a third term and then won re-election in
July.
Nkurunziza's opponents said his decision
violated the constitution and a peace deal that ended the central
African country's 1993-2005 civil war. The government cited a subsequent
court ruling that said he could run again.
“Three
people in civilian clothes and armed with guns and grenades burst into a
bar opened fire on a group of people who were having beer there. One
lady died instantly three others were serious injured," Deputy Police Spokesman Moise Nkurunziza told Reuters.
“If it was just robbery, they would have taken money and not killed innocent people," he added. "Let’s wait the outcome of investigations."
U.N.
officials have said the crisis risks pushing Burundi back to the kind
of ethnically charged conflict that characterised the war, in which
300,000 people died.
About 250,000 people have
fled since violence erupted, most to border camps in neighbouring
Tanzania and more than 400 people have been killed in the ensuing
violence, according to estimates by the U.N. and rights groups.
A U.N. report seen by Reuters on Monday, said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
has proposed sending between 20 and 3,000 police to Burundi, but warned
that the government had indicated it would only accept 20 unarmed
experts.
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