According to the police, suicide bombers have targeted the Uganda capital, Kampala, killing at least three people and injuring more than 30 others.
Three attackers on motorbikes blew themselves up near parliament and the city’s police headquarters.
It is likely that the number of those dead will rise as the blasts left body parts strewn in the street.
The Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. The attacks came within three minutes of each other with more bombs found in other parts of the city, according to the officials.
“The bomb threats are still active, especially from suicide attackers,” said police spokesman Fred Enanga.
“We believe there are still more members of these domestic terror cells, especially the suicide bomb squad that has been created by the ADF.”
A fourth attacker has been arrested and an explosive vest recovered, police said. Two police men were among the dead with thirty-three others injured in the blasts, five were injured critically.
IS gave a statement on its Telegram channel, then reported by its Amaq News Agency, saying that its members carried out the attacks. Officials had blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a rebel group which pledged its allegiance to IS in 2019.
The ADF operates in both Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has operated since the late 1990s. However, in 2015 the group split amid an internal power struggle with one half of the group pledging an alliance with the Islamic State. Reuters reported that the nicknames of the three attackers indicated all three were from Uganda.
Sources: BBC, MSN
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