At least four people were killed and 52 injured when an unidentified man lobbed a grenade into a crowd at a village market in Rwanda, public radio reported Sunday.
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The incident at Karambo village, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of the Rwandan capital Kigali, took place Saturday night, but rescue efforts to recover the injured went into Sunday morning, it said.

Karambo is in an isolated mountainous region, meaning police and other authorities only belatedly learned of the incident due to poor telecommunications.

The injured were admitted to Butare university hospital, where about a dozen among them were in critical condition, said police spokesman Eric Kayiranga, quoted by Radio Rwanda.

"This attack has not yet been claimed, but the police suspect it was an act of sabotage to sow terror in rural districts," he said.

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