Uganda: authorities attribute series of attacks to ADF group
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Ugandan security forces attribute the two attacks in Lungala and Kampala to the ADF group.
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In Uganda, the police attribute to the ADF group the explosion in a bus that occurred on Monday, October 25 in the afternoon in Lungala, and which left a victim, the alleged perpetrator. and one seriously injured.
Investigators link this attack with the previous one on Saturday evening in a restaurant north of Kampala.
This explosion killed a waitress and injured three.
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With our correspondent in Kampala,
Lucie Mouillaud
Through the voice of its spokesperson, Fred Enanga, the police confirm that the explosion triggered in a bus on Monday is a new terrorist act in the country.
“
This is the first case of a suicide attack, where the assailant wears an explosive jacket, and sets it off on a bus.
The suicide bomber was identified as Isaac Matovu, a 23-year-old man
, said Fred Enanga.
He was already wanted to be a member of ADF sleeper cells.
We tracked him down under the pseudonym Mustapha.
"
In close collaboration with IS
According to the police, the same group is at the origin of the
explosion on Saturday, October 23
in a restaurant. The attackers would report to the same cell inspired by the ADF and in "
close collaboration with the Islamic State
". ISIS, through its local branch, the Islamic State in Central Africa, had also claimed responsibility for the attack this weekend north of Kampala.
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These events confirm our information that these sleeper cells have considerably recruited, radicalized and studied how to make homemade bombs
," added the Ugandan police spokesman
.
Their motives are ideological and based on hatred.
They started off with easy targets, but we think they can have much bigger plans.
"
The same group, according to the authorities, carried out the attempted suicide bombing last August at the burial of a senior law enforcement official, as did the attack in early October on a police station in north of Kampala, the first attack claimed in the country by the Islamic State.
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