KAMPALA: Islamic state militia group has said that it was behind the bomb attack in Kampala at the weekend that claimed one person and injured three others. According to Reuters news agency, the militant group made the claim on its Telegram channel on Sunday.
The group claimed to have detonated an explosive at a bar where “members and spies of the Crusader Ugandan government were gathering” in Kampala.
According to police, the bomb, which was locally assembled with nails and shrapnel, targeted a pork restaurant at Komamboga in Kampala.
According to police, three men disguised as customers, visited the restaurant, placed a polythene bag under a table and left moments before the explosion, police said.
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.
Police spokesman Fred Enanga on Sunday described the attack as an act of terror and called for extra public vigilance. The attack by the militant group is another reminder of the growing threat of terror attacks in the country.
In 2010, the Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab killed dozens of people in Kampala in a bomb attack, saying it was punishing Uganda for deploying troops in Somalia.
In June, police said the people behind the attempted assassination of Works minister Gen Katumba Wamala were terrorists affiliated to ADF.
In July, security agencies shot dead three suspects, who had been arrested in relation to the killing of Brenda Nantongo, the daughter of Gen Katumba, and his driver Haruna Kayondo on Kisota Road in Kisaasi, a Kampala suburb.
Ahead of the burial of deputy inspector general of police Paul Lokech, security agencies arrested a man who was reportedly strapped with explosives believed to have been targeting the burial.
Early this month, security agencies gunned down a suspected armed terrorist during a raid in Kyebando, a Kampala City suburb.
Police identified the suspect as Hamid Nsubuga, who allegedly evaded arrest in Pader District during the burial of Paul Lokech.