Uganda said Friday it had foiled a suicide bomb attack against the state funeral of top police and army commander who led a major African Union offensive against al Shabaab militants in Somalia.
Security forces said they had arrested a man on Thursday in the northern town of Pader on the eve of the funeral for Maj-Gen Paul Lokech, nicknamed the “Lion of Mogadishu”. “The suspect was found with an assortment of bomb-making materials,” army spokeswoman Brigadier Flavia Byekwaso said in a statement, identifying him as Ugandan national Katumba Abdul, also known as Ben.
