Reports continue of attack on Amin

Press, 29 July 1976, Page 8

Reports continue of attack on Amin

NZPA-Reuter Nairob President Idi Amin, of Uganda, who once said “God’s wish” protected him against assassins, escaped a bomb attack five days ago in which several guards were killed, according to a Kenyan newspaper. The “Daily Nation” of Nairobi, said two bombs had exploded at President Amin's hilltop military headquarters in Kampala on Saturday and a third ‘ bomb had been defused. I It said Field-Marshal Amin had not been injured I in the attack, but an uns known number of his i guards had been killed.

Radio Uganda has denied the report and an earlier conflicting story by the “Standard” newspaper, Nairobi, that claimed that disgruntled Army troops had attacked the command post with rifle fire. The radio admitted that there had been shooting in Kampala on Saturday, but attributed it to test firing on new anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons by President Amin, his two wives, and a four-year-old son. It appealed to Ugandans not to panic. Other reports spread that President Amin had fled Uganda. Residents in the capital

of Kampala, contacted by telephone, were extremely nervous and refused to talk. Another attempt was made on President Amin’s life in early June when attackers threw grenades at his limousine, killing the driver, a bodyguard, and dozens of other persons, but leaving him almost unscathed. The unpredictable Ugandan said afterwards that he had been saved “by God’s wish” and claimed he was unafraid of future danger because “if I am going to die, God will tell me.”