Uganda has heightened its terror alert to maximum for the first time since bombings in 2010 killed 79 people, after domestic and US intelligence indications of a possibly imminent attack by Islamist militants, police have said.
Security staff were recalled from leave and thousands of extra officers were deployed across the capital, Kampala, after the alert level was raised to red.
"Our intelligence and that of the Americans show an imminent terror attack is likely," said Patrick Onyango, a police spokesman.
Uganda had already heightened security after at least 67 people were killed in an attack on the Westgate shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, claimed by the Somali militant group al-Shabaab. » | Reuter in Kampala | Friday, October 18, 2013
