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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The police bomb squad yesterday defused a bomb which had been placed under a tree in Lugoba Local Council I in Kawempe Division, Kampala.<\/p>\n

Residents were on tenterhooks as they waited for the police to detonate the explosive.<\/p>\n

A 10-year-old girl, who saw someone put the bag under the tree, told her father about it and he called the police.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was in the morning. A man dressed in black clothes and riding a bicycle came and stopped near this tree. He put the bag under the tree and opened it. I asked my brother to inform daddy,\u201d the girl, who sells charcoal, recalled.<\/p>\n

The girl\u2019s father had left to run an errand \u201cbut when he came back, I told him\u2026[he] returned with a police officer, who was not wearing uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Ashifah Nakyeyune, a resident of Lugoba Zone, who stays a stone\u2019s throw from where the bomb was placed, said she saw the bag at 9am, adding that the police cordoned off the area an hour later.<\/p>\n

The bag was carefully placed.<\/p>\n

At 3:30pm, the police\u2019s bomb squad, with the aid of sniffer dogs, established that the object was indeed an explosive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe jammed and cooled it in order to control sound and heavy exploding so that it does not cause any harm,\u201d a bomb squad officer told Daily Monitor.<\/p>\n

The officer added that after safely detonating the bomb, they collected the bomb samples, soil samples, and parts of the bag. All of these will be submitted to the police forensic team.<\/p>\n

The police spokesperson, Mr Fred Enanga, said forensic and counterterrorism experts are poring over different bomb blast sites.<\/p>\n

He added that they had \u201cobtained very critical cyber leads and other digital evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Enanga was optimistic that the worst could be behind Uganda.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe task teams have finished sweeping all buildings surrounding the blast sites and other vital installations for secondary devices with the assistance of the canine teams,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cNo secondary devices were found and the surrounding buildings have been cleared for resumption of activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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