At least 90 people have been killed in clashes in Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura in one of the worst outbreak of violence in the African nation.
Scores of bodies are reportedly still lying in the streets with some of their hands tied behind their backs on Sunday.
At least four police officers and four troops were among those killed in the violence, which rocked the capital on Friday. About 45 people were arrested.
The Army said that the clash was the worst outbreak of violence in Burundi since a failed coup in May.
Army spokesman, Gaspard Baratuza, said that gunmen had attacked three military sites in Bujumbura on Friday, igniting a day of clashes across the city.
He said that 79 attackers were killed and 45 others captured.
Unrest in Burundi, which started in April when President Pierre Nkurunziza, announced plans for a third term in office, has unnerved a region still volatile two decades after the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda.
Friday’s clashes were condemned by the United States, which like other western powers fears the Central African nation could slide back into ethnic conflict.
More than 220,000 people have fled the violence to neighbouring Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Congo.
