/ 12 April 1999

EXPLOSION IN KAMPALA

FOUR people were injured, one of them seriously, when a bomb went off overnight in the Ugandan capital Kampala, police said on Sunday. “Three (people) had minor injuries but one of the victims was seriously injured. She had shrapnel wounds in her head and eye,” police spokesman Bob Ngobi said. The explosion occurred late on Saturday near the New Taxi Park in central Kampala, where the bomb had apparently been left at one of the stalls which line the busy street. Last year a spate of explosions in Kampala left seven people dead. Three bombs planted buses killed another 24 people. Previous bomb attacks were blamed on an urban wing of the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which has since 1996 been active in western Uganda, where it is fighting in a bid to destabilise the government of President Yoweri Museveni.