Uganda charges two suspects over attempted assassination of minister


  • World
  • Monday, 28 Jun 2021

FILE PHOTO A forensic expert records bullet holes on a vehicle at the scene of an attempted assassination on Ugandan minister of works and transport General Katumba Wamala in which he was wounded and his daughter and driver killed an army spokeswoman and local media reports said in the suburb of Kiasasi within Kampala Uganda June 1 2021. REUTERSAbubaker LubowaFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: A forensic expert records bullet holes on a vehicle at the scene of an attempted assassination on Ugandan minister of works and transport General Katumba Wamala, in which he was wounded and his daughter and driver killed, an army spokeswoman and local media reports said, in the suburb of Kiasasi within Kampala, Uganda June 1, 2021. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa/File Photo

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Two suspects were charged with murder and attempted murder on Monday over an assassination attempt on a Ugandan government minister in which the minister was wounded and his daughter and driver were killed.

Sserubula Hussein Ismael and Nyanzi Yusuf Siraji "attempted unlawfully to cause the death" of General Katumba Wamala, Uganda's works and transport minister, the charge sheet showed.

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