Eleven policemen were wounded in Burundi when unknown gunmen hurled grenades and attacked police stations across the capital Bujumbura late at night, police officials said on Saturday, adding to tensions ahead of a presidential poll on July 15. According to Reuters, gunfire and explosions could be heard from 9 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Friday and echoed across parts of the capital for several hours, witnesses said. "Yesterday police posts were attacked, and the police registered 11 policemen who were wounded in the attack," Pierre Nkurikiye, a police spokesman, told Reuters. No-one has been arrested but a police investigation has been launched into the attacks on police stations in the Jabe, Cibitoke, Bwiza and Kanyosha districts, Nkurikiye said, but did not specify how many posts were attacked.
