Al-Shabab claims Uganda bombings

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At least 74 people have been killed in two near simultaneous bomb explosions, apparently targeting crowds watching the World Cup final, in Uganda's capital, Kampala, police have said.

One blast hit an Ethiopian restaurant in the south of the city, while the other occurred at a rugby sports club in the east of Kampala.

Somalia's al-Shabab, a group which the US says has links to al-Qaeda, has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

"Al-Shabab was behind the two blast in Uganda," Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage, the group's spokesperson, told reporters in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.

"We thank the mujahideens that carried out the attack. We are sending a message to Uganda and Burundi, if they do not take out their AMISOM [African Union Mission in Somalia] troops from Somalia, blasts will continue and it will happen," Rage said.

Uganda and Burundi currently have peacekeepers in Somalia as part of a stabilisation mission supported by the African Union.

These attacks are the first time the group, which has carried out multiple suicide attacks inside Somalia, has struck outside of the country.

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