WORLD NEWS: UGANDAN POLICE FOIL REBELS’ BOMB PLOT ON CHURCHES
About 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the capital, Kampala, Ugandan police stopped an attempted bombing of churches by the rebel group known as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), according to President Yoweri Museveni.
Museveni said on X, the former Twitter platform, that the ADF had manufactured two bombs that they “were planning to plant in churches in Kibibi, Butambala.”
However, he continued, “the devices were reported to the police and defused.”
The Islamic State group has received the support of the ADF faction.
The nation’s 79-year-old leader, Museveni, said earlier on Sunday that airstrikes by Ugandan forces had targeted ADF sites in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo. Museveni has ruled the nation since 1986.
“It seems quite a number of terrorists were killed,” the president said on X, without elaborating.
After the airstrikes, he said, the ADF might try “to commit some random terrorist acts” in Uganda.
Ugandan authorities stated in September that they had stopped a second bombing attempt on a cathedral in Kampala by apprehending a guy who was allegedly attempting to set off the explosive device among pilgrims.
42 people were slain by ADF militia members in June, including 37 students at a high school in western Uganda close to the DR Congo border.
Since the 2010 double attack in Kampala that claimed 76 lives and was carried out by the Islamist group al-Shabaab, based in Somalia, it has been one of the deadliest incidents that have occurred in Uganda.
AFP
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