Ugandan Prosecutor in Al-Shabaab Terror Case Killed

Joan Kagezi, prosecutor in the trial of the 2010 bomb blast at a World Cup viewing venue in Kampala, was shot by men on a motorbike as she drove home.

Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Joan Kagezi, has been shot dead. She was one of the state’s senior attorneys prosecuting terrorism suspects in the Kyadondo and Ethiopian Village restaurant bombings of 2010.

A distraught woman calls on her cellphone from the scene of a bomb blast at a World Cup viewing venue (file photo).

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