The US embassy in Uganda has advised US citizens to stay alert and avoid large public gatherings as there remains a threat of terrorist attacks in the country and throughout the region. This is coming a day after Ugandan police thwarted a suicide bombing attack in Kampala. Ugandan police on Monday evacuated a business centre in the capital, Kampala, on suspicions that there was an explosive inside. The spokesperson of Kampala Metropolitan Police, Patrick Onyango, said that the police arrested a 28-year-old suspected suicide bomber before he entered Rubaga Miracle Centre, a church operated by the prominent Ugandan preacher Pastor Robert Kayanja, in the Lubaga suburb of south Kampala.
Mr. Onyango said that the arrested suspect, named Kintu Ibrahim, who is being held on terrorism related charges is helping the police to locate three other suspects believed to be part of a co-ordinated plot targeting churches across Uganda.
According to police reports, Ibrahim had concealed an improvised explosive device in a food flask placed in a bag.
Authorities however, successfully detonated the explosive, which comprised of nails, a cell phone, detonator, booster charger and other components.
