Steven Candia
14 July 2005
Kampala — A bomb attack situation was played out in the city yesterday as security operatives and other stakeholders held a mock drill to gauge and improve their response to emergencies.
There was a loud explosion, a ball of black smoke and a flame in a car wreckage that had been hauled to the area. A string of speeding Police patrol trucks with armed policemen, ambulances and a Fire tender trucks, nurses and Red Cross rescue workers flooded the area.
Police patrol trucks, ambulances and a fire tender with flickering roof lights and wailing sirens rushed to the scene at break-neck speed as the explosion shook Mulago after an explosive was detonated at the Mulago nurses hostel at about 10:30am.
The explosion took many residents by surprise. Four Israel experts coordinated the exercise that brought together the Police, Army and sister security agencies.
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