Explosions at ⁠a ⁠military ammunition store in Burundi’s ⁠commercial capital on Tuesday night killed four people, with ​the blasts lasting several hours, according to comments from residents on Wednesday. An army spokesperson said ‌late on Tuesday that the ‌explosions, which reverberated across the city, sending plumes of smoke into the ⁠sky and ⁠prompting terrified residents to seek shelter, were caused by an electrical ​short circuit. In Bujumbura’s Musaga neighbourhood, residents said the blasts had killed two people, one of them a young woman. “She was in front of me. I saw her falling ​as she was running in a group of people. After a short while ⁠I ⁠came to know she was ⁠violently ​hit by a bomb,” said one resident who asked not to be named. Another man ​was killed 100 metres ⁠away at a church in Gasekebuye neighbourhood.

Full report : Burundi says explosions in Bujumbura caused by short-circuit at ammunition store.