One Dead and Eighteen Injured in Three Grenade Attacks in Kigali

Rwanda - Attacks

Eighteen people are reported injured after three simultaneous grenade attacks in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. The attacks that looked choreographed left one person dead as they went off in the city’s busiest points last night. According to state radio, five of the injured were in serious condition following the attacks on a busy bus station, a restaurant and a building housing city centre businesses. Grenade attacks have increasingly become a popular way of venting anger or revenge, mostly on unsuspecting crowds in the last three years in Rwanda, where many of those cases remain largely unsolved.

Efforts by Newstime Africa to reach the police spokesman Eric Kayiranga or any security official were futile. Rwanda is expected to hold presidential elections later this year in August. Earlier this month, during a press conference president Paul Kagame said elections should be a normal process without disrupting daily activities. “People should be able to continue with their life,” he said, adding “the polls will have constants such as peace, stability and security.” This is very much a developing story and details will be made available as they reach us.

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