July 14, 2005
Posted to the web July 14, 2005

Steven Candia
Kampala

A bomb attack situation was played out in the city yesterday as security operatives and other stakeholders held a mock drill to gauge and improve their response to emergencies.

There was a loud explosion, a ball of black smoke and a flame in a car wreckage that had been hauled to the area. A string of speeding Police patrol trucks with armed policemen, ambulances and a Fire tender trucks, nurses and Red Cross rescue workers flooded the area.

Police patrol trucks, ambulances and a fire tender with flickering roof lights and wailing sirens rushed to the scene at break-neck speed as the explosion shook Mulago after an explosive was detonated at the Mulago nurses hostel at about 10:30am.

The explosion took many residents by surprise. Four Israel experts coordinated the exercise that brought together the Police, Army and sister security agencies.

(source / full list of drills)