Kampala blasts leave one dead, eight injured

Bomb blasts at separate market places left one person dead and eight others injured, press reports said. The first bomb went off at Kampala's Owino market on Thursday night only to be followed by another in Nateete market in the suburbs of the capital early on Friday. No-one has claimed responsibility for the blasts. A defence ministry source told IRIN: "These
are cowardly acts". He said a recent string of bomb explosions in the country had caused "temporary fear" among citizens, but "eventually they gain courage and continue with their lives". The government was working to train citizens to cope with such terrorist attacks, he added.

On Wednesday, a little-known group, the Uganda Salvage [sic] Front/Army, left leaflets at the site of another explosion in Busia, in eastern Uganda, the 'New Vision' said. Analysts say even if the perpetrators of such terrorist attacks were arrested in Uganda today, "it would be very difficult to pin them down". "The law of the country is not explicit on terrorism," one analyst told IRIN.