Burundian child killed after picking up grenadepublished at 10:43 Greenwich Mean Time 23 December 2015
A journalist with Radio France International is tweeting in French that a child in Burundi's capital Bujumbura has been killed after playing with an unexploded grenade.
The tweet says:
An unexploded grenade was picked up by a child #Musaga a child killed, another seriously injured, said a witness
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This tweet confirms the incident, saying:
#Burundi: confirmed to the health centre, a schoolboy killed and 2 others wounded. They played with a grenade without knowing what it was