The Ugandan police discovered bombs a few hours after arresting the person who wanted to blow up the church

The Ugandan police discovered bombs a few hours after arresting the person who wanted to blow up the church

Sep 4, 2023 - 11:41
The Ugandan police discovered bombs a few hours after arresting the person who wanted to blow up the church
The Ugandan police discovered bombs a few hours after arresting the person who wanted to blow up the church

  Police in Uganda have discovered three bombs in the Lungujja area in Kampala just a few hours after arresting a man after he entered a church in the capital city of Kampala with an explosive he planned to use to carry out an attack. The Ugandan police have confirmed that yesterday they discovered three bombs in a house in Lungujja on the outskirts of the capital Kampala. The suspect, who is a 28-year-old man named Kintu Ibrahim, was arrested when he was about to enter the church of Pentecost, Lubaga Miracle Centre, in Lubaga township south of Kampala. Police officers were looking for three other men who were also believed to be involved in similar bombing plans elsewhere in Uganda, a Ugandan police statement said.

The Ugandan police has issued a statement suggesting that there are plots to carry out terrorist attacks in the East African country. ADF terrorist group fighters In June this year armed people believed to be ADF group rebels attacked a private school in Mpondwe area in Kasese district, western Uganda and killed dozens of students and kidnapped several others. In November 2021, the forces of Uganda and the neighboring country of Congo DR launched a joint operation to hunt down the rebels of the ADF group in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but so far the results of the operation have not been made public. The Ugandan rebel group, United Democratic Forces (ADF) is accused of killing thousands of people in the states of North Kivu and Ituri in Congo and bomb attacks in Uganda in 2021.