Burning cars at Parliamentary Avenue in Kampala, Uganda, following a suspected bomb explosion on November 16, 2021. PHOTO | DAILY MONITOR | NMG
Twin suicide bombings killed three people and wounded several dozen more in Uganda's capital Kampala on Tuesday, police said as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The police earlier blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group active in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo blamed for a string of recent attacks in Uganda and which Washington has linked to IS.
Police officers at the scene where one of the twin bombs exploded at Kooki Towers, near Central Police Station on November 16, 2021. Several police officers were injured. PHOTO | RACHEL MABALA | NMG
Two suicide bombers on motorcycles -- disguised as local "boda boda" motorcycle taxi drivers -- detonated a device near the entrance to parliament, killing a passerby. A third attacker targeted a checkpoint near the central police station, killing two people, police spokesman Fred Enanga said.
The explosions in Kampala's central business district occurred within minutes of each other, shortly after 10am, and left "bodies shattered and scattered", he said.
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