Janvier Nkurunziza 7 was killed in a grenade explosion in Nyamagana cell, Ruhango sector of Ruhango District on November 3.
The grenade exploded while Nkurunziza innocently played with it without knowledge of it.
Recently a 12-year old Maldoche Dusingizimana died in similar circumstances in the same district when his elder brother Athanase Kubwimana picked the grenade thinking it was a valuable when collecting fodder for cattle and brought it home.
Police says with several reported grenade explosions in the district, this is an indication that there are many firearms and light weapons still scattered in other areas of the country despite repeated calls to voluntarily surrender these dangerous weapons.
Most of the weapons are said to have been distributed to the population during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, especially in the Southern Province.
The National Focal Point Coordinator on small arms and light weapons, ACP Sam Karemera has asks the public to share timely information on whereabouts of any firearms and those that still keep them.
“We have task forces at district level equipped with telephones that help in sharing information with us through Community Policing Committees and this is yielding positive results.
But they are still more out there that need to be disposed off so as to completely get rid of them from the society.”
Campaigns in schools are also being conducted describing metals related to explosives such that unknown metals in the area should be reported.
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