Uganda's Transport Minister General Katumba Wamala was discharged from hospital after undergoing surgery to remove a bullet in his arm. Mr Wamala was injured
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Uganda’s Transport Minister Gen. Katumba Wamala survived an assassination attempt in the country’s capital Kampala on Tuesday morning.
This after his official car was attacked by gun-wielding people in the country’s capital, Kampala, on Tuesday morning.
Nairobi News understands the Minister’s daughter Brenda Wamala and driver Haruna Kayondo have succumbed to injuries sustained in the attack.
The incident is reported to have happened at 9am.
Army spokeswoman Brigadier Flavia Byekwaso has confirmed Wamala was injured in the attack.
Eyewitnesses say four unknown armed assailants riding on two black motorbikes shot at the minister’s convoy.
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Follow RT on An assassination attempt on a Ugandan minister has taken place in Kampala. His bodyguard and reportedly his daughter were killed in the attack, but the minister himself received only minor injuries and has been taken to hospital.
On Tuesday morning, a car carrying Katumba Wamala, a former Ugandan army general and current minister of works and transport, was attacked in the Kampala suburb of Kisota.
A spokeswoman for the army told Reuters that Wamala had sustained injuries and been taken to hospital. In photos and videos the minister can be seen standing by the car, his sleeves covered in blood.