KAMPALA-UGANDA/NEWSDAY: At least five people have been injured in an explosion incident that blasted on Sunday.
Police deputy spokesperson for Kampala metropolitan, Luke Oweyesigire said the explosion occured in Industrial Zone Kagugube Central Division in Kampala City.
Oweyesigire said that Jennifer Birungi’s daughter Katusiime was given second hand clothes by a friend only identified as Anita, who is in Dubai and when she sorted the clothes in their home yard, they saw a metallic bottle with a blue colour and suspected it to be an explosive .
“A One Poni Elizabeth (grand daughter),threw it in the dust bin but Vanessa(grand daughter) secretly removed it from the bin and brought it back to the house” Oweyesigire said.
He said that a child identified as Vanessa started playing with it, opened it and eventually it exploded injuring five people in the house.
The Victims have been identified as Jennifer
Birungi, 45, a KCCA cleaner, and resident of Industrial Zone Kagugube Central Division in Kampala City. Others are Harriet Kabasinguzi, 25, Poni Elizabeth, 1, Nakandi Mitchell, 2, and a daughter to Kabasinguzi, Vanessa Birungi, 10, a granddaughter to Birungi.
“The incident is being investigated with the view of identifying the exact origin of the explosive ordnance. The five victims are currently admitted at the National Referral Hospital at Mulago for treatment”Oweyesigire said.
He said the investigators have recovered pieces of the explosive, which have been submitted to experts for analysis.
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