Five Injured In New Kampala Blasts

Posted by: Kyeyune Andrew Jonathan in Uganda news December 27, 2021

Kampala police are investigating an incident in Wandegeya where an explosive ordnance blasted and injured five people.

It has been alleged that on Christmas eve, at about 1500/c at Industrial Zone Kagugube Central Division, a girl named Katusiime received second-hand clothes.

Apparently, Katusiime got the clothes from a friend who has only been identified as Anita, who is in Dubai.

The Kampala police said that according to the complainant, Jennifer Birungi, Katusiime’s mother, they sorted the clothes in their home yard. But as they sorted, they saw a metallic bottle with a blue color and immediately suspected it to be a bomb.

Immediately, one Poni Elizabeth (granddaughter) threw the object in the dustbin, but Vanessa (another granddaughter) secretly removed it and brought it to the house.

‘’At about 2100hrs, Vanessa started playing with it, opened it, and eventually it exploded injuring five people in the house,’’ Luke Owoyesigire said in a statement.

The five victims are currently admitted at the National Referral Hospital at Mulago for treatment, according to the police. They further said the incident are under investigation to identify the exact origin of the explosive ordnance.

The statement revealed that the police has already recovered some fragments of the explosive which have been submitted for analysis. It further appealed to the public to report any items that look suspicious to the relevant authorities for safe handling.

In similar incidence, the police counter-terrorism unit and bomb squad personnel rushed to Nakasagazi village in Sembabule to retrieve a bomb discovered in a forest.

Apparently, children found the bomb as they were fetching firewood from a nearby forest. While there, they discovered an old rusty projectile that somebody had abandoned for some time.

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