Ugandan capital rocked by co-ordinated bomb blasts

Damaged chairs and tables among the debris strewn outside the popular Ethiopian Village restaurant in Kampala, where the first blast was detonated at 10.25pm local time
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A man injured in one blast is helped into Mulago hospital. Further explosions tore through the Kyadondo rugby club in Lugogo. At least 74 people were killed in the co-ordinated explosions, with scores more injured
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Paramedics at Mulago hospital attend the injured in corridors. Somalia's most powerful Islamist group, al-Shabab, claimed responsibility for the attacks
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A doctor treats a victim of the blasts at Mulago hospital in Kampala
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If police suspicions are confirmed, this would be the first time that al-Shabab has struck outside Somalia
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A paramedic attends to an unidentified American citizen at Mulago hospital. President Barack Obama described the attacks as 'deplorable and cowardly'
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Doctors at Mulago hospital help an injured man
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An injured man holds up a piece of shrapnel removed from his leg at Mulago hospital
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People gather outside Mulago hospital's casualty ward for information on loved ones
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A victim of the bomb blasts talks to a nurse
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Ugandan policemen stand guard at the entrance of Kyadondo rugby club in Lugogo, a kilometre east of Kampala city centre, where twin blasts detonated about 50 minutes after the first bomb exploded at the Ethiopian Village restaurant
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Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni talks to the owner as he visits the scene of the blast at the Ethiopian Village restaurant
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