Burundi grenade kills 3 among World Cup revellers

BUJUMBURA, July 10: Three people were killed and 25 injured in Bujumbura when a grenade exploded in a crowd celebrating Italy's victory against France in the World Cup soccer final, Burundi police said.

It was not immediately clear who threw the grenade into the crowd late yesterday. A police spokesman denied accusations that police were responsible.

''We were celebrating Italy's victory and we saw police coming to disperse us,'' Jean-Paul Ndayisaba, who was injured in the attack, told Reuters.

''They began shooting at us and one threw a grenade onto our group.'' Police spokesman, Colonel Pierre Claver Gahungu, denied this.

''There was no grenade thrown by police,'' he said on state radio. ''The number of grenades given to the police who were patrolling in that area is still the same. No grenade is missing,'' he said, adding that an investigation was under way.

REUTERS

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