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Nine killed in ambush

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    Nine palm oil traders were killed and two others injured in Ruzira, at the border between Ryansoro and Matana communes, eastern Burundi, Burundi radio reported. It said the assailants targeted a bus transporting palm oil businessmen. It was heading from Gitega to Rumonge. “I can confirm that rebels shot at a public transport vehicle killing nine people,” Burundi army spokesman Colonel Augustin Nzabampema told IRIN on Thursday. He said the rebels were “stepping up” ambushes in many parts of the country. On Tuesday, four ministry of education employees and a soldier were killed, and three people injured, some 10 km northeast of Bujumbura after the vehicle they were travelling in was ambushed.

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