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Ugandan police say 21 people have been arrested in connection with two deadly attacks claimed by ISIL affiliates.
Ugandan police have shot dead five suspects and arrested 21 people, officials said two suicide bombings an ISIL (ISIS) affiliate who killed three people claimed.
Counter-terrorism agents in the western part of the country have killed “four suspected Ntor terrorists who were returning to the DRC,” police spokesman Fred Enanga said at a news conference Thursday.
A fifth man, Sheikh Abas Muhamed Kirevu, who was trying to escape the arrest near the capital, said Enanga added that Kirevu was a local Islamic leader who was “responsible for waking up the terror cells in the camp again.”
Police also arrested 21 suspects as part of a crackdown on Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group that is active in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo linked to the United States by ISIL.
The ADF, historically a Ugandan rebel group, has been accused of killing thousands of civilians in eastern DRC.
The blasts in the capital Kampala on Tuesday occurred just minutes apart, and two suicide bombers disguised as motorcycle taxi drivers detonated a device near parliament in motorcycles, and a third attacker struck a checkpoint near the central police house.
The two attacks, which killed at least three people and injured 33 others, were the latest in a series of attacks in an East African country.
The ADF took charge of a nail-biting bomb that exploded next to a well-known list of street side restaurants in the Kawala division of Kampala last month.
The group has long been opposed to the rule of President Yoweri Museveni, a U.S. security ally who was the first African leader to deploy peacekeepers in Somalia to protect the federal government from the al-Shabab armed group.
Police arrested several suspected ADF agents after the incident, and warned that others were preparing a new attack on the “main facility”.
Washington joined the ADF in March with ISIL, which in 2019 began advocating for some of the ADF’s attacks on social media, presenting the group as a regional branch: the Central African Province of the Islamic State or ISCAP.
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