Two grenade explosions in the Rwandan capital of Kigali have left at least 16 people wounded, said officials on Friday.
The near-simultaneous explosions occurred on Thursday night. The first blast, which took place at a car-washing yard, left four people wounded, while the second explosion at a bus station in the capital city injured 12 others.
Thursday's attacks come less than a month after similar grenade attacks killed two people and wounded at least 30 others in Kigali on 19th February. The attacks at that time were attributed two high-ranking officers now in exile.
The attacks came ahead of the country's forthcoming presidential elections, which are scheduled for August. It will be the second presidential election in the African country after the 1994 genocide, which saw the massacre of hundreds and thousands of minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
It is estimated that Hutu militias slaughtered some 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 100 days during the 1994 genocide.
The killings were prompted by the assassination of then-Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, and finally ended after Tutsi-led militia supporting Rwandan President Paul Kagame ousted the then-ruling Hutu government, which supported the massacre.
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