{UAH} Uganda funeral bomb plot: Islamist rebels blamed

Uganda funeral bomb plot: Islamist rebels blamed

BBC World Service

The Ugandan president has blamed a foiled suicide bomb attack at the funeral of a top military commander on the rebel Allied Democratic Front (ADF).

Officials said a man had been arrested in the northern town of Pader with an assortment of bomb-making materials ahead of Maj-Gen Paul Lokech's funeral.

President Museveni said the attack had been planned because Gen Lokech had overseen the recent arrest of suspects linked to the Islamist ADF group.

The government said he died last Saturday from a blood clot.

Last year, Gen Lokech was appointed Uganda's deputy police chief after working as a senior commander in the African Union force fighting Islamist militants in Somalia, where he was known as the "Lion of Mogadishu".

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