Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. PHOTO AFP
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday said the perpetrators of the bomb attack in the capital Kampala on Saturday night will be arrested.
“It seems to be a terrorist act but we shall get the perpetrators. The public should not fear, we shall defeat this criminality like we have defeated all the other criminality,” Museveni tweeted.
The president said police are at the scene in Komamboga, a Kampala suburb, and will provide more information later as well as release guidelines to the public on dealing with possible terrorist threats.
Museveni said available information shows that three people dropped off a polythene bag which later exploded, killing one person and injuring five others.
Ugandan police have also confirmed that there was a bomb blast in the capital Kampala on Saturday.
Asan Kasingye, chief political commissar of police, said in a tweet that the blast in Komamboga left a young woman and man fatally wounded and others admitted with serious injuries.
He said police would soon issue an official statement.
The blast came days after the British and French embassies here issued a security alert to their citizens, warning of a terror attack.
Xinhua