Uganda: Country Arrests Five More Over Kampala Bombings

Ugandan police have arrested five more people in connection with Sunday night's bomb attacks in Kampala that left 74 people dead. The arrests bring the number of those in detention to 12. They include four Ethiopians and a Somali, as well as an unspecified number of Eritreans and Ugandans.

Following the blasts, police have stepped up security for foreigners, especially of Somali descent, to protect them from revenge attacks by irate mobs who see them as linked to the Somali-based al-Shabab Islamists.

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