Patrice Gahungu, spokesman of Burundi’s Union for Peace and Development (UPD-Zigamibanga) opposition party, was shot dead on Monday night, on his way home at Gasenyi in the capital Bujumbura.
Clemence Nsabiyimbona, wife of Gahungu, said on Tuesday in Bujumbura that her husband was ambushed around 22:30 on his way home.
She said the husband was coming from a bar close to the house, when she heard a lot of gunshots for a short time and was informed that he was killed.
Nsabiyimbona said she walked to the place of the ambush, along with her neighbours, and found that Gahungu had already died.
“The assassination of my husband must be politically motivated as two windows of his car were damaged by bullets.
“My husband is alone in the car when he was ambushed in a road turn, just about 200 meters to his house,” she said.
On May 23, UPD Chairman Zedi Feruzi was also killed near his house in Ngagara neighbourhood in the capital Bujumbura and his killers have not yet been identified.
UPD-Zigamibanga is one of the main opposition parties in the east African nation.
Most opposition leaders have fled the country as they are the target of killings.
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