Pakistanis among 20 arrested for Uganda attacks
18 july 2010
KAMPALA: Security forces have arrested more than 20 people including several Pakistanis for two bombings last week that killed at least 73 people in the Ugandan capital, a foreign news agency quoted a police chief as saying Sunday.
"In terms of those who are in custody, certainly it is more than 20," Kale Kayihura told reporters.
Among them were Pakistanis who had a shop in a Kampala suburb, Kayihura said. "They are being questioned.... They have to explain themselves," the police chief said.
The July 11 bombings at a restaurant and a crowded bar where people were watching the football World Cup final in South Africa were claimed by the Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab insurgent group in Somalia.
One of the Pakistanis had been mentioned in an email sent by a presumed Shebab spokesman as having links with the Islamist group, the police chief said.
The Pakistan nationals were among eight people, including Ugandans, picked up at the shop, Kayihura said. He initially said five of the group were Pakistanis but later said he could not give a precise figure.
"They were not all Pakistanis. There were Ugandans among them as well," he said.
"The total number is eight who were arrested. But I don't know the actual number who were Pakistanis but the total number who were arrested is eight," he said of the arrests at the shop.
The Shebab said the attacks were in retaliation for the presence of Ugandan troops in an African Union force in Somalia, propping up the fragile Western-backed transitional government.
Source: The News International
18 july 2010
KAMPALA: Security forces have arrested more than 20 people including several Pakistanis for two bombings last week that killed at least 73 people in the Ugandan capital, a foreign news agency quoted a police chief as saying Sunday.
"In terms of those who are in custody, certainly it is more than 20," Kale Kayihura told reporters.
Among them were Pakistanis who had a shop in a Kampala suburb, Kayihura said. "They are being questioned.... They have to explain themselves," the police chief said.
The July 11 bombings at a restaurant and a crowded bar where people were watching the football World Cup final in South Africa were claimed by the Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab insurgent group in Somalia.
One of the Pakistanis had been mentioned in an email sent by a presumed Shebab spokesman as having links with the Islamist group, the police chief said.
The Pakistan nationals were among eight people, including Ugandans, picked up at the shop, Kayihura said. He initially said five of the group were Pakistanis but later said he could not give a precise figure.
"They were not all Pakistanis. There were Ugandans among them as well," he said.
"The total number is eight who were arrested. But I don't know the actual number who were Pakistanis but the total number who were arrested is eight," he said of the arrests at the shop.
The Shebab said the attacks were in retaliation for the presence of Ugandan troops in an African Union force in Somalia, propping up the fragile Western-backed transitional government.
Source: The News International
