The journalists who visited the attack site in central Burundi said they counted 304 bodies and 100 wounded people from the attack on Saturday.
The capital was calm again today, but there were reports of fighting in the Gitega Province in central Burundi, and of a massacre of 50 or more civilians on Saturday as the army pursued rebels who set fire to a coffee farm in the town of Giheta.
Likewise FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) has warned about food insecurity in north and east central Burundi and one of the factors causing the precarious situation is declining yam harvests and the losses of cassava crops to the mosaic virus.
Gisozi (also Kisozi) is a settlement in central Burundi and capital of the commune of the same name.
Commune of Gishubi is a commune of Gitega Province in central Burundi.
Commune of Gihogazi is a commune of Karuzi Province in central Burundi.
The Burundi army killed more than 200 people, most of them women and children, in an operation in central Burundi late last month, aid workers in the area said today.
Ruziza is a city in southern central Burundi.
Muramvya is a city located in central Burundi.
Commune of Kayokwe is a commune of Mwaro Province in central Burundi.