Two people were killed on Saturday, June 18 in an armed attack suspected to have been carried out by the National Liberation Front (FLN), in Kitabi sector, Nyamagabe district.
According to a statement by the Rwanda National Police (RNP), the attack took place at 2pm when “armed thugs suspected to be members of the FLN outfit operating across the border, shot at a public passenger bus on the Nyamagabe-Rusizi road.”
Previously, members of this group have attacked Rwanda coming either from Burundi or Democratic Republic of Congo.
“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,” it added.
The assailants are being tracked down, according to RNP’s statement.
The FLN is an anti-Rwanda militia group operating in the DRC.
It was behind the 2018 and 2019 attacks in South-Western Rwanda, where at least nine unarmed civilians lost their lives, more others injured and property destroyed or looted.
