A WOMAN was killed and her six-year-old son was injured on Sunday after they stepped on an anti-personnel landmine near Burundi’s capital Bujumbura, witnesses said. “We heard a landmine explosion and then a little girl covered in blood arrived saying her mother and brother were lying on the floor and could not move,” said a resident in Gasenyi, a few kilometres (miles) northeast of Bujumbura. The trio were on their way to pick cassava in a nearby field. “Seven people have already been killed by mines in that area,” said the resident, adding that “the population does not venture into the fields because of the fear of mines.” The mines are a vestige of Burundi’s eight-year-old civil war which pits the Tutsi-dominated army against Hutu rebel movements. The fighting has claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, mostly civilians. – AFP