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Riot policemen walk past a barricade during street protests against the decision made by Burundi's ruling National Council for the Defence of Democracy-Forces for the Defence of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party to allow President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third five-year term...
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BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Protesters demonstrated in Burundi for a second day on Monday after activists said at least five people were killed in unrest a day earlier sparked by the president's plan to run for a third term, a move critics say violates the constitution.
"The fight continues," protesters chanted in the Musaga district of the capital Bujumbura. A Reuters witness saw about 200 people demonstrating and said tires were being burned.
Prominent activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa said at least five people were killed in the capital on Sunday - three of them in protests and two more in an attack by the ruling party's youth wing. The police and officials had no immediate comment.
(Reporting by Patrick Nduwimana; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
