A yet to identify assailants gang on Monday attacked torched the parking yard for Uganda Registration Services Bureau – URSB at Georgina House Kampala and destroyed vehicles in an alleged petrol bomb attack.
“We have had an unfortunate incident of a fire outbreak at our office parking lot on Plot 5, Georgian House. The police and fire brigade are on ground handling the situation,” URSB tweeted last night.
An official at URSB who talked to Parrots UG disclosed that three vehicles were burnt in the parking lot.
Preliminary reports by police indicate that the attackers were traveling on a boda boda with an object that had flammable liquid on the cars.
Police fire prevention and rescue services personnel were dispatched to the scene and were able to put out the fire before it could spread to other areas.
This is a third incident in a period of less than a week after two similar incidents happened in Kireka during a traffic jam last Thursday evening.
Police say cases of suspected petrol bomb attacks are on rise in Kampala and other neighbouring urban areas with most of the assailants targeting government vehicles.
Speaking to the press last week, the Kampala Metropolitan Police mouthpiece, ASP Luke Owoyesigyire said they have strengthened patrols and deployments on all major roads in the city centre especially where there is traffic jam to secure the motorists.
“The deployments will ensure that no motorist’s life or property is threatened or attacked. Police have put in place all its resources to ensure that the culprits are arrested and prosecuted,” he said.
