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Uganda boming: Police kill 5 terror suspects

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By Kwanta Douglas –

Ugandan police killed five suspects and arrested 21 others on Thursday as part of an investigation into twin suicide blasts claimed by the Islamic State that killed four people, according to an official.

The blasts on Tuesday were the latest in a series of strikes in the East African country, which has increased security and launched an investigation into the bombings, with President Yoweri Museveni vowing to destroy “terrorists.”

Two suicide bombers on motorcycles disguised as “boda boda” motorcycle taxi drivers detonated a device near parliament, while a third assailant targeted a checkpoint near the center square.

Ugandan police said the attacks were the work of “domestic terrorists” linked to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group active in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that the United States has linked to IS.

On Thursday, counter-terrorism officers in the west of the country killed “four suspected terrorists in Ntoroko who were crossing back to DRC”, police spokesman Fred Enanga told a press conference.

A fifth man was killed near the capital as he tried to escape arrest, Enanga said, adding that Sheikh Abas Muhamed Kirevu was a local Islamic leader who was “responsible for re-awakening the terror cells in Kampala”.

He said police had arrested 21 suspects as part of their crackdown on the ADF, which Kampala also blames for two attacks last month.

The suspects “were operatives, coordinators, financiers of terrorism activities,” Enanga added. 

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