Ugandan police authorities detained 48 terror suspects linked to last month’s bombings

Uganda’s police arrested 48 suspects in connection with last month’s deadly bombings blamed on an Islamist group linked to Islamic State.

An explosion at a restaurant in the capital on October 23 killed one person and left at least three people injured, while a suicide bomber in a bus two days later injured a senior police officer.
According to Reuters who quoted a statement from the police, securities agencies have “conducted several intelligence-led operations, that led to the arrest of 48 suspects, highly linked to the acts of terror in the country”.

The detained suspects involved “single individuals, those operating in small cells that have been broken and others on various activities of terrorism”.

Security personnel have blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamic group allied with Islamic State, for both attacks. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the restaurant bombing and no group has claimed the bus attack.

Source: CGTN