BURUNDI. ARMY TO PROBE EXECUTION OF 23 REBELS

Burundi's army will investigate allegations that its troops executed 13 holdout rebels who were training in a village outside the capital, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Adolphe Manirakiza said.
Manirakiza did not provide details on the planned investigation, which he announced shortly after a local mayor went on the radio to dispute his report on the killing of members of the rebel National Liberation Force.
Earlier, Manirakiza said the army killed 13 rebels who were training in Bujumbura Rural province on July 6.
Mayor Desire Ngendakumana, however, suggested that the suspected rebels were executed in cold blood as all had gunshot wounds to the head.
"There was not a fighting, but it is clear all of them were executed," Ngendakumana, mayor of the Isare area where the incident occurred, told the independent African Public Radio.