Bujumbura - Two people were killed and 45 wounded in a grenade attack on a high-school graduation party in central Burundi, a local official said on Monday.
Attackers hurled the grenade at the revellers at a house in Burundi's central Gitega province late on Sunday, local administrator Josee Gitunati told AFP.
Twelve of the wounded were in a serious condition, he said.
Grenade attacks are common in the small central African country which since 2006 has been emerging from a civil war that erupted in 1993.
The government often blames the country's last active rebels - the National Liberation Forces - for the ambushes.
The conflict, mainly pitting rebels from the Hutu majority population against the Tutsi minority, which then dominated the army, killed some 300 000 people.
Source: News24 SA
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