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At least 70 people were killed in the capital of Uganda, Kampala, in two blasts suspects have been held by Somali insurgents linked to al-Qaeda, Ugandan officials said the security.

The explosions took place in two bars, where a crowd watched football in the World Cup final, Fred Opolot, director of the Uganda Media Center, told reporters today in the city. The first explosion went to an Ethiopian village restaurant in the south of Kampala at 10:25 pm local time and after the second in club rugby Kyadondo at 11:15 pm, he said.
Some of the 67 injured later died in hospital, James Kakooza, Minister of State for Health, said in a telephone interview.

"In accordance with the Inspector General of Police, is an indication of this is connected with al-Shabaab," "Felix Kulayigye, the representative of the Ugandan army, said in a telephone interview today." This terrorist act. The intention to instill fear. "

Ugandan soldiers are often led by the African Union peacekeeping in Somalia, where al-Shabaab was the fight Western-backed government of the country, starting in 2007. The U.S. accuses al-Shabaab "in connection with Al-Qaeda, said that the plans to establish an Islamic state in Somalia. Burundi as peacekeepers in Somalia.

Al-Shabaab "said that they would attack Ugandan and Burundi, many times in the past because in the army," Rashid Abdi, the Horn of Africa analyst at the International Crisis Group, said in a telephone interview today from Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. "This was simply a matter of time. He walked. "

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