Govt guard shoots colleagues
2006-01-04 21:53
Bujumbura - A presidential guard accidentally shot four of his colleagues as he climbed into a military pickup van that was part of a presidential motorcade touring eastern Burundi, said a senior police officer on Wednesday.
Albert Bigirimana, the town's police chief said two of President Pierre Nkurunziza's guards were shot in the chest and another two in the upper arms after their colleague's gun went off on Wednesday as they prepared to leave Ruyigi, about 170km east of Bujumbura.
Bigirimana said the injured soldiers were in Bujumbura Military Hospital.
Nkurunziza's tour of eastern Burundi was stopped for an hour, before his entourage continued to the province of Cankuzo.
- AP