At least two people on board a public transport bus including a passenger and a driver were killed and six others injured earlier Saturday when armed terrorists opened fire inside Nyungwe Forest, Southern Rwanda, a Police statement obtained by APA said.
This Saturday afternoon at around 14:00hrs, armed thugs, suspected to be remnants of FLN operating from across the border, shot at a public passenger bus on the Nyungwe-Rusizi road in Nyungwe forest, in Nyamagabe district,” Rwanda National Police said in a statement.
The statement also states that the assailants killed the bus driver, and one passenger, and also injured six other passengers who were evacuated to Kigeme Hospital and university teaching hospital in Butare (CHUB) for treatment.
According to the statement, the Rwanda National Police intervened minutes into the incident and the assailants are being tracked down. No further details have been communicated since.
The National Liberation Front (FLN) is the armed wing of Rwandan Movement for Democratic Change (MRDC) previously responsible for a string of attacks against civilians and passenger buses transiting through the Nyungwe forest highway.
In December 2019, this rebel group also claimed responsibility for setting fire on passenger buses in Nyungwe forest, which led to the death of two people and many injuries.
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