Grenade kills up to three at Guinea football bar

As many as three people died when a grenade went off at a bar in the Guinean

capital Conakry where football fans were celebrating their team ’ s goal in a

2015 Africa Cup of Nations game against Ivory Coast, police said .

A spokesman for the police , Mamadou Alpha Barry , said “it was an accidental

explosion” and that the man who set off the hand grenade had himself been

badly injured . The explosion occurred late Tuesday as Guinea opened the

scoring in what ended as a 1 -1 draw against Ivory Coast .

Barry said “three bodies are at the morgue, ” but General Ibrahima Balde , the

head of police , said he could “confirm at least one death ” and that the casualty

reports “varied between one and three . ”

“We were celebrating the Guinean goal when we heard a strong explosion in

the bar , which was full of people watching the game , because there wasn ’ t any

electricity in the neighbourhood , ” a security source said .