BUJUMBURA, Burundi: Burundians voted Tuesday amid gunfire and grenade blasts, with President Pierre Nkurunziza widely expected to win a third term despite international condemnation and thousands of people fleeing feared violence.

The United States said the government's dismissal of calls to delay the poll threatened its legitimacy and risked "unravelling the fragile progress" made by the peace deal that ended more than a dozen years of civil war and ethnic massacres in 2006.

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