Friday 19th November 2021
After the attack in the capital
Uganda’s police kill five terrorist suspects
Four people in Kampala lose their lives in a suicide bombing. According to the local police, the suspects belong to the IS. Police kill them while trying to cross the border with the Congo.
After the two suicide attacks in Uganda’s capital Kampala, police in the East African country killed five suspects. Police said four of the “terrorists” were killed on their return to the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. In a raid against the rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) there were also 21 arrests.
Kampala was hit by two violent explosions within a few minutes on Tuesday. According to police, three suicide bombers blew themselves up near Parliament and at a checkpoint near police headquarters. Four people were killed. The Islamic State (IS) jihadist militia claimed responsibility for the attacks. Uganda’s police blamed “domestic terrorists” with ties to the ADF for the attacks.
The ADF is an originally Ugandan rebel group, which the USA believes is linked to the IS militia. It is active in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has already been blamed for a number of attacks in Uganda. On Thursday, police in Ntoroko, western Uganda, killed “four suspected terrorists returning to the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” a police spokesman said. A fifth man was killed near the capital while trying to avoid arrest.