Gunmen kill Uganda minister's daughter, driver in failed assassination bid: army

Katumba Wamala

Gunmen sprayed bullets at a car carrying a Ugandan government minister in an attempted assassination on Tuesday, wounding the former army commander and killing his daughter and driver, an army spokeswoman and local media reports said. Four attackers on motorcycles opened fire at a vehicle carrying General Katumba Wamala, the minister of works and transport, in the Kampala suburb of Kiasasi, local television station NBS reported. Images circulating on social media showed Wamala with his mouth open, in apparent distress beside the car and his light-coloured trousers splattered with blood. Social media images also showed bullet holes in a car window and casings on the ground. ‘There was a shooting involving him ... he is hurt and he's been taken to the hospital, his driver was killed,’ Army spokeswoman Brigadier Flavia Byekwaso told Reuters.