Blast Kills Libyan Diplomat in Uganda
A Libyan diplomat was killed and five people, including the French cultural attache, were wounded Monday in an explosion that a previously unknown rebel group said was aimed at the Libyan presence in Uganda.
The Libyan, administrative attache Ayad Ahmed, died on the way to a hospital after an unknown assailant threw a grenade or small bomb into the hallway of a building housing the Libyan, French and two other embassies.
The cultural attache, Jean-Daniel Neveu, was hit by a grenade fragment, and his condition was not serious, the Foreign Ministry in Paris said.
The other casualties were a Ugandan secretary at the Libyan Embassy, an elevator operator and two employees of an agricultural company with offices in the same building, police sources said.
A telephone caller to an international news agency office in London claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of a previously unknown group, the Uganda Federal Army.
“We killed a Libyan diplomat who was the head of the Libyan terrorists’ base in Kampala,” the caller said.
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