By Kenneth Kazibwe, KAMPALA
Uganda
The death toll from the Tuesday morning Kampala twin blasts has reached seven after a police officer succumbed to injuries at Mulago hospital in Uganda's capital.
George Katana, a businessman was the seventh
person to succumb to wounds from the blast that hit his workplace.
The man who operated a printing business along
Parliamentary Avenue was among those affected by the blast as two suicide
bombers detonated bombs they were carrying on motorcycles.
On Wednesday afternoon, Police released the
identities of the people who died in the twin blasts that rocked Kampala on
Tuesday morning.
According to police, Police Constable Amos
Kungu died instantly in the explosion that targeted the Central Police Station
checkpoint where he had been deployed.
The born of Molu village in Budaka district
will be buried at his ancestral grounds today.
Others who died in the blasts are Ismail Basibe
and Christopher Sande.
Following the blasts that his Kampala on
Tuesday morning, at least 35 people were admitted to hospital and five of these
were in critical condition.
President Museveni assured the public that the
terrorists whom he described as pigs will face the wrath of the law after
inviting government to go after them.
“The terrorists invited us and we are coming
for them. They have exposed themselves when we are more ready for urban
terrorism. They will perish,” Museveni said in a statement.
The incidents came barely a month after two
separate explosions rocked a pork eating joint in Komamboga, a Kampala suburb
and a Swift Safari bus along the Kampala -Masaka highway.
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