Fourteen people were injured in three bomb blasts in Uganda's second city Jinja, police said Sunday.
The first explosion went off at around 9:25 p.m. (1825 GMT) Saturday in a bar, injuring eight people in the city about 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of the capital Kampala.
Police spokesman Asuman Mugenyi told AFP by telephone that this blast was followed immediately by another at a second bar, injuring five more people.
Almost an hour later, another bomb went off near a fast food stall, injuring a woman vendor.
All three bombs, described by police as "timed homemade devices," had been concealed at the blast sites beforehand.
"We have got some clues as to the people who carried out the attacks, and our investigators are carrying out a probe," Mugenyi told AFP.
Witnesses said police had evacuated other nightspots in the town and called in ballistics experts from Kampala to comb them for other bombs.
The attacks were the first to hit Jinja, after similar explosions that occurred in and around the capital Kampala more than a year ago and were blamed on rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) fighting government forces in the west of the country -- KAMPALA (AFP)
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