Egypt: Terrorist outfit, the Islamic state (IS) on Sunday claimed it carried out a bomb attack that killed one person in Komamboga, Kampala on Saturday night.
According to Reuters news agency, the militant group posted a statement in an affiliated Telegram channel late on Sunday claiming responsibility.
In the statement, IS said that some of its members detonated an explosive device in a bar where “members and spies of the Crusader Ugandan government were gathering” in Kampala. But Uganda had earlier on said the attack was organised by domestic terrorists.
Police spokesperson Fred Enanga early on Sunday said the the bomb, packed with nails and shrapnel, targeted Digida pork restaurant on the outskirts of Kampala.
President Museveni said that three men fought objects wrapped in a kaveera and left it under a table. The men Museveni called pigs disguised as customers.
The explosion killed a 20-year-old waitress and injured three people, two of whom were in critical condition, police said, adding all indications suggest an act of domestic terror.
In July 2010, the Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab killed 75 people in Kampala in a twin bomb attack, saying it was punishing Uganda for deploying troops in Somalia.
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