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Bombing in eastern Uganda

[Guinea] From the Central Hotel, Downtown, Conakry, June 22, 2004. IRIN
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    Ugandan police have arrested 12 people in connection with a a bomb blast near a police station in the eastern town of Iganga, media reports said. The bomb caused damage to a building and a classroom but there were no injuries. The bomb is said to have been planted by a previously unknown group, the People’s Freedom Movement/Army, which according to the semi-official ‘New Vision’, left a note at the site urging Ugandans to take up arms to oust President Yoweri Museveni.

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