adminCape Town – Security has been beefed up in Uganda following a US warning of a terror threat similar to last month’s attack on a shopping mall in neighbouring Kenya by al-Qaeda-linked militants al-Shabaab, a report says. BBC said yesterday that a government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo was glad that the US had passed on its intelligence.
Al-Shabaab attacked two restaurants in Kampala in 2010 and killed more than 70 people.
The militants have also claimed the September attack on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi, in which at least 67 people were killed.
Meanwhile, officials in Kenya say two boxes of charred body parts have been delivered to the city morgue from
Westgate mall and that four AK-47 assault rifles were found alongside the remains.
Gunmen stormed the mall on 21 September, killing more than 60 people.
A city morgue official told The Associated Press that the two boxes arrived on Thursday, and that a team of foreigners padlocked the boxes yesterday.
A security official said one of the four gunmen seen in security footage is a Norwegian-Somali whose last name is Dhuhulow and the first or middle name is Abdi.
The official said four AK-47 rifles, 11 AK-47 magazines and one RPG were recovered at the mall on Thursday.
Both officials insisted on anonymity because they couldn’t speak publicly. -AP
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