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Kampala Explosions: City dwellers opt to walk home after taxi operators hike prices

Matooke Republic by Matooke Republic
November 16, 2021
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Ambulances wait next to the explosion near the building of Parliament in Kamapala, Uganda, on November 16, 2021. - Two explosions hit Uganda's capital Kampala on November 16, 2021, injuring a number of people in what police termed an attack on the city, the latest in a string of blasts targeting the country. The explosions occurred in the central business district of Kampala near the central police station and the entrance to parliament, police said. (Photo by Sumy SADRUNI / AFP) (Photo by SUMY SADRUNI/AFP via Getty Images)

Ambulances wait next to the explosion near the building of Parliament in Kamapala, Uganda, on November 16, 2021. - Two explosions hit Uganda's capital Kampala on November 16, 2021, injuring a number of people in what police termed an attack on the city, the latest in a string of blasts targeting the country. The explosions occurred in the central business district of Kampala near the central police station and the entrance to parliament, police said. (Photo by Sumy SADRUNI / AFP) (Photo by SUMY SADRUNI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Joint security agencies have cordoned off the Central Business District following two bomb blasts that occurred at Kooki Towers near Kampala CPS and another at Jubilee House on Parliamentary avenue.

Areas close to the scenes of the twin bomb blasts have already been cordoned off and security forces have ordered city dwellers to leave the city center.

According to what we have gathered, most of the city dwellers are now walking back home because transport fares have been hiked with taxi operators citing the chaos in town as the reason.

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