Gunmen kill two in car in Burundi near DR Congo border

Two people were killed and
another wounded when their car was ambushed by gunmen in the
west of Burundi near the border with Democratic Republic of
Congo, residents said on Sunday.
The assault took place on Saturday night on the road from
Bubanza province to Burundi’s commercial capital Bujumbura, they
said.
Three residents told Reuters they heard gunshots and grenade
explosions from the area of the attack.
“A car from Gihanga to Bujumbura was burnt down, two people
in the vehicle, a woman and a man, were killed…one man escaped
but was injured by bullets,” one woman who lives close to the
scene told Reuters.
The residents said they suspected the attack, about 5 km
from the border, was caried out by Red-Tabara, a rebel group
that has been battling Burundi’s government for years from bases
in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
They said attackers returned back to the nearby Rukoko
forest, from where they could cross back to their bases.
The group has previously been accused by the Burundi
government of having conducted several ambushes and attacks
against civilian and military targets since 2015. Police were
not available for comment on Sunday.