Sam Twineamazima, the Savannah Regional Police spokesperson says that the Police together with a bomb expert from Uganda People Defense Forces transferred the devices to Bombo Military Barracks for analysis.
Police in Wobulenzi town have recovered 10 bomb shells
hidden in the bushes by unknown persons.
They have been
discovered hidden in the bushes near the playground of Al Answar Education
Center Primary School in Nakasero zone in Wobulenzi.
Noorden Kiwanuka, the LC 1 Chairman of Nakasero zone explains
that a resident who was picking herbs sighted devices hidden in the bushes at
around 3 pm on Monday and immediately alerted Wobulenzi Police Station.
Kiwanuka says that Police together with a bomb expert rushed
to the scene and found that they were shells before they collected them for
further investigations.
He says that they suspect that they may have been dumped there by
scrap metal dealers after detecting that they were bomb devices.
Sam Twineamazima, the Savannah Regional Police spokesperson says
that the Police together with a bomb expert from Uganda People Defense Forces transferred
the devices to Bombo Military Barracks for analysis.
Twineamazima adds that Police have also embarked on
investigating how the devices ended up in the bushes and the suspect who could
have dumped them there.
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Two weeks ago a farmer discovered an unexploded ordinance in his
garden located Kikoma zone in Wobulenzi town council.
Policemen together with bomb experts from Bombo Military
Barracks responded and detonated it.
Because of the bombs that were abandoned by the National Resistance Army (NRA) during the war that ushered in
the current government in power ended in 1986, several residents die annually
and others are injured as a result of bombs exploding in the
districts of Luwero and Nakaseke .
