CAIRO (REUTERS) – Islamic state claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that killed at least one person in Uganda’s capital Kampala on Saturday (Oct 23) night, the militant group said in a statement posted in an affiliated Telegram channel late on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The group said that some of its members detonated an explosive device in a bar where “members and spies of the Crusader Ugandan government were gathering” in Kampala.<\/p>\n
The bomb, packed with nails and shrapnel, targeted a pork restaurant on the outskirts of the capital, police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Information gathered indicated that three men, disguised as customers, visited the restaurant, placed a polythene bag under a table and left moments before the explosion, police said.<\/p>\n
The explosion killed a 20-year-old waitress and injured three people, two of whom were in critical condition, police said, adding all indications suggest an act of domestic terror.<\/p>\n
President Yoweri Museveni said the attack “seems to be a terrorist act”.<\/p>\n
In 2010, the Somali Islamist militant group Al Shabaab killed dozens of people in Kampala in a bomb attack, saying it was punishing Uganda for deploying troops in Somalia.<\/p>\n
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