The police have confirmed that up to 3 suicide attackers were involved in the twin blasts that rocked Kampala on Tuesday. The blasts happened near CPS in the city centre and on Parliamentary Avenue, next to Jubilee Insurance offices.

According to the police, one of the three was involved in the CPS blast. The attacker was an adult male putting on a black jacket and carrying a backpack. He detonated the bomb he was carrying in the backpack.

“The spillover covered a radius from this attack was around 30 meters,” Police spokesperson Fred Enanga told the media.

The other two suicide bombers carried out the Parliamentary avenue attack. According to Enanga, these two were riding on a motorcycle.

“They were disguised as a Boda boda man carrying a passenger,” Enanga says.

The scene on the parliamentary avenue was covered with body parts the police believes are from the attackers.

Enanga has revealed that there was a fourth attacker who has been arrested by the police.

“We managed to pursue a 4th bomb attacker up to Bwaise where we managed to shoot and disable him before arresting him,” Mr Enanga told the media.

The police have managed to search the home of this fourth attacker, only identified as Moze, in Nansana Katooke and found an unexploded suicide vest and other related explosive devices.

The police have confirmed two civilian deaths that happened as a result of the explosions with a possibility of a third. 33 people have been injured with 5 of them in critical condition.

The police say that preliminary investigations show that domestic terror groups linked to the ADF are behind the attacks. The ADF is a Uganda-born rebel group that in the 1990s and 2000s terrorised mainly western Uganda border areas in Kasese, Bundibugyo and Kabarole before starting a campaign of indiscriminate killings in Kampala by tossing grenades in mainly crowded bars.

“The hallmarks of the attack clearly indicate that the ADF radicalized groups who still have a desire to carry out lethal attacks on soft targets using suicide attackers and improvise explosive devices were behind these attacks, “ Enanga told journalists.

Tuesday’s attacks come 22 days after the Swift Safari bus explosion that injured travellers and killed a suicide bomber. This attack happened days after the Komboga explosions that saw a 20-year-old die.

The police have condemned these acts. Enanga believes that the response from the Police will reap benefits, especially after the arrest of one of the bombers.