One of the people killed in Tuesday’s suicide explosions that hit Kampala is a police constable, according to Police Spokesperson, Mr Fred Enanga.
Enanga said Wednesday that Police Constable Amos Kungu died instantly in the explosion near the Central Police Station checkpoint.
He identified the other three as Ismail Basibe, Christopher Sande and George Katana who succumbed to injuries he sustained in the explosion at Parliamentary Avenue.
Katana died at Mulago National Referral Hospital where he had been admitted.
In the aftermath of the blasts in which three suspected suicide bombers died, 35 injured persons (27 males and eight females) were checked into Mulago Hospital. Several were discharged yesterday.
“Twenty-one are going to be discharged today (yesterday), meaning that their injuries were relatively minor,” Mulago Hospital executive director, Dr Baterana Byarugaba said, adding: “[Thirteen] remain at various wards, and, of these, two are critically sick and are admitted to ICU (Intensive Care Unit).”
The bomb blast victims who were received at the hospital had a wide range of injuries, including soft and deep tissue damage.
In a statement on Tuesday, President Museveni referred to the attackers as “pigs” before warning: “…the terrorists invited us and we are coming for them.”
“They have exposed themselves when we are more ready for urban terrorism. They will perish. Rural terrorism was defeated in 2007 in Semliki National Park. I am referring to the dead terrorists as manipulated victims of confusion,” Mr Museveni said in a statement on Tuesday evening.
The bombs — improvised explosive devices (IED) — went off between 10:03am and 10:06am. By 10:30am, about 15 victims had been taken to Mulago Hospital.