Burundi's de facto internal security chief killed in rocket attack on car

Gen Adolphe Nshimirimana, seen as regime's No 2, assassinated week after President Nkurunziza declared election winner

A top Burundian general and close aide to the president, Pierre Nkurunziza, has been killed in a rocket attack on his car in the capital, Bujumbura, officials and witnesses said.

Gen Adolphe Nshimirimana was widely seen as the crisis-hit central African nation's de facto internal security chief and even considered the regime's No 2.