KAMPALA, Uganda
Islamic state claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that killed at least one person in Uganda’s capital Kampala on Saturday night, the militant group said in a statement posted in an affiliated Telegram channel late on Sunday.
The group
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.
The bomb,
packed with nails and shrapnel, targeted a pork restaurant on the outskirts of the
capital, police said on Sunday.
Information
gathered indicated that 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.
President
Yoweri Museveni said the attack “seems to be a terrorist act”.
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.
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