UGANDAN police have arrested three people in connection with three bomb blasts in Kampala on Monday that injured 17 people, police representative Assuman Mugenyi said on Tuesday. The three explosions, described by police as home made pipe bombs, detonated between 8:20 and 8:40 p.m. (1720-1740 GMT) on Monday. Two of the bombs had been placed in group taxis in the Kampala suburbs of Maganja and Nateete. A third was placed in the New Taxi Park, one of the central points in the city where taxis gather. Between 1997 and 1999, dozens of people were killed in a spate of bomb and hand-grenade explosions in Kampala. Responsibility for those attacks was claimed by a rebel group called the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda. – AFP
Monday June 4, 2001