Uganda minister’s daughter killed in failed assassination attempt

Motorcycle-riding gunmen sprayed General Katumba Wamala’s vehicle with bullets, killing his daughter and driver.

Gunmen have attacked and wounded Uganda’s former army commander, killing his daughter and driver in an assassination attempt. 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 on Tuesday, local television station NBS reported. “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 said.