Fatal blast at restaurant ‘a terrorist act’, says Uganda’s president

Ugandan police secure a road leading to the scene of an explosion in the Komamboga suburb of the capital, Kampala, (Nicholas Bamulanzeki/AP)

An explosion at a restaurant in Uganda’s capital was an apparent terrorist act, President Yoweri Museveni said on Sunday.

Mr Museveni said three people entered the premises in a suburb of Kampala on Saturday evening and left a plastic bag whose contents later exploded.