Seventeen killed in grenade attack

A man killed himself and 16 other people with a grenade in northern Burundi when he was stopped from addressing scores of family members at a welcome home party for his sister, a police spokesman said today.

The man threw the grenade last night killing his sister and her husband, who were being honoured with the traditional ceremony in Muyinga district, 150 miles north of the capital, Bujumbura, said spokesman Pierre Channel Ntarabaganyi. Other family members also died.