At least 23 police officers are receiving treatment at Mulago National Hospital after sustaining injuries in the Tuesday morning explosion at Central Police Station in the City Centre.
The officers were injured in a blast that went off at 10 am, at the CPS quarter guard. They were together with some civilians were also standing under a tree shade between CPS and Kooki Towers along Buganda Road in the Kampala Central Business District.
At least 17 police officers were admitted in the casualty ward at Mulago. Meanwhile, Kampala Central Mayor Salim Uhuru also confirmed that one of his friends only identified as Katongole is dead.
Some of the police officers that were injured were identified by one name and they include; Constable Sebunya, Kanyanya, Kavera, Balingira, Osman, Okot, and Ojira among others.
Most of them had cuts to their heads, arms and stomachs while others have broken limbs, and others are bleeding profusely. It is believed that they were brought from the Central Police Station-CPS, where the first blast went off.
The doctors at the hospital are also severely strained by the number of injured people coming in, forcing the hospital management to call in all available staff to help with the emergency as Ministry of Health and Mulago Hospital ambulances bring the injured in.
Entrance into the hospital has also been restricted.
