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KIGALI, May 7 (AFP) - A bomb injured 30 people when it blew apart a restaurant in a major hotel in Butare, Rwanda's second city, informed sources said here Thursday.
Just one person was badly hurt enough to be taken to hospital, but Wednesday's blast lifted the roof off the restaurant and knocked a wall down, smashing windows, the source said.
Since March 12, bomb attacks often using Soviet-made mines that can be detonated by remote control have claimed more than 30 lives in different parts of the small east African highland nation.
At least six people were killed and 10 injured when a bomb destroyed a collective taxi in Kigali on Saturday. The previous day, 17 people died when a minibus was blown up in Ruhango.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The authorities blame rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (FPR), a movement largely made up of exiles from the minority Tutsi people who launched an insurrection some 19 months ago.
The opposition, however, accuses the formerly single ruling Republican National Movement for Democracy and Development (MRND) of seeking to spread "insecurity" in a bid to discredit the government of interim Prime Minister Dismas Nsengiyaremye, an opposition leader responsible for overseeing the run-up to multi-party elections.
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