Grenade Tossed Into Building Kills 40

Soldiers with this central African nation’s mainly Tutsi army packed 40 people into a rural school and tossed a grenade inside, killing them all, a witness said. Salvator Singirankabo, a resident of Kibezi, 20 miles south of the capital of Bujumbura, said he saw the killings Monday. The soldiers had come to the region to flush out Hutu rebels who had burned 18 schools a week ago. Maj. Andre Niyongabo, an army commander in the district, defended the soldiers, saying people who were put in the school were “genocidal terrorists” who had shot at soldiers. Locals said Tutsi soldiers and Hutu rebels have killed up to 190 people in the area this week.