The brother of the groom, who is suspected of carrying out the attack, was arrested in the central Gitega province, police officials said on Sunday.

"The grenade was launched into a crowd of people at the wedding ceremony," Pierre Ntarabaganyi, a police spokesman, said.

The attack is believed to have followed a land dispute.

Dozens of guests were also hurtbut the groom and his wife survived.

Burundi is emerging from more than a decade of ethnic war that has killed 300,000 people.

A recent UN study said there are still hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons in the country.

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