KAMPALA, Uganda
Uganda Police have said that seven suspects were killed and 106 people detained during operations by the security services linked to three suicide bombings in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, last week.
ISIL
(ISIS) claimed responsibility for the November 16 attack, which killed seven
people, including the three bombers, and injured dozens more. One police
officer was among the four others killed and 27 of the 37 wounded were also
police officers.
“To
disrupt and dismantle acts of domestic terrorism, we have intensified
operations. Since these operations began, a total of 106 suspects have been
arrested,” police spokesperson Fred Enanga said in a statement posted on
Facebook on Monday.
Police
did not provide details on how the seven suspects were killed.
In
last week’s attack, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of a
police station in the centre of Kampala. Three minutes later two other suicide
bombers exploded along a road that leads to the parliament.
The
explosions set vehicles alight, sent glass shards flying, and panicked officers
and workers fleeing multi-storeyed buildings.President Yoweri Museveni
Enanga
said those detained “included those who were involved in terrorist financing
and persons who were involved in mobilisation and incitement of vulnerable
Ugandans into the ranks of the ADF [Allied Democratic Forces],” a rebel group.
“We
are actively monitoring all spaces in homes, places of worship, which are
acting as domains for recruitment and as collection centres, for children who
are introduced to ideological messages and beliefs,” Enanga said.
A
security raid on a location in central Uganda had found 22 young people who
security personnel suspects were being prepared for recruitment into the ADF,
he added.
The
ADF was founded in Uganda in the 1990s and initially waged a war against the
government from bases in the country’s west.
The
group was eventually routed and fled into eastern Democratic Republic of the
Congo where it has been operating since, with the United Nations blaming it for
thousands of civilian deaths. - Reuters
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