Uganda charges 15 with terrorism for role in IS-linked bombings

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows wreckages of police vehicles at the scene of a blast in Kampala, Uganda November 16, 2021. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda on Thursday charged 15 people with offences including terrorism and aiding terrorism related to their alleged role in bombings in the country's capital and elsewhere in October and November that left at least nine people dead.

In the early hours of Nov. 16 a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of a police station in the centre of Kampala. Three minutes later two other suicide bombers detonated along a road that leads to the parliament.