Uganda police kill five men after suicide bombings, including Muslim cleric

From The Guardian

Authorities accuse the five of having ties with the extremist group blamed for bomb blasts in the capital Kampala.

Four men were killed in a shootout in a frontier town near the western border with Congo as they tried to cross back into Uganda, police said on Thursday. A fifth man, a cleric named Muhammad Kirevu, was killed in “a violent confrontation” when security forces raided his home outside Kampala, police spokesperson Fred Enanga said.

A second cleric, Suleiman Nsubuga, is the subject of a manhunt, he said, accusing the two clerics of radicalising young Muslim men and encouraging them to join underground cells to carry out violent attacks.

A total of 21 suspects with alleged links to the perpetrators are in custody, Enanga said.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s explosions, saying they were carried out by Ugandans. Authorities blamed the attacks on the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, an extremist group that has been allied with IS since 2019.

Being the Guardian the rest of the article is about human rights group fears that the clampdown on terrorist murderers might lead to the deaths of innocent people (like the waitress killed by an ISIS suicide bomber at her place of work last month, they mean).