At least seven people were killed and around 20 others were injured in a grenade attack on a peace concert and reprisal violence in Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, on Saturday officials said in a statement.
Interior Minister Henri Wanzet Linguissara said two individuals on a motorcycle approached revellers attending a concert organised to foster reconciliation and social cohesion late on Saturday night and threw a grenade into the crowd. We have registered four deaths and 20 wounded.
Heavy gunfire concentrated in and around Bangui’s PK5 neighbourhood a Muslim enclave in the majority Christian city erupted after the attack.
Nearly five years into the conflict in CAR, which has been marked by successive waves of ethnic cleansing, the security situation is worsening, particularly in the east.
Bangui, where the headquarters of 12,000-troop-strong United Nations peacekeeping mission is located, has been relatively stable in recent months, and the weekend’s violence was a reminder of the city’s darkest days.
Meanwhile, the riverside city has in the past been a flashpoint for inter-religious violence that erupted between Muslims and Christians in 2013 and has since engulfed most of the impoverished, landlocked nation.
United Nations (U.N.) Security Council is this week scheduled to vote on a French-drafted resolution to authorise an extra 900 troops to protect civilians in Central African Republic.
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