Kampala : Rioters set fire to roadblocks in Kampala and clashed with police firing tear gas and live rounds, leaving two dead, scores injured and several hundred people arrested.
The riots come one day after opposition leader Kizza Besigye was attacked with tear gas and had his car smashed by police who arrested him for the fourth time this month.
Ugandan authorities said they had arrested 360 people over yesterday's riots as police "restored law and order."
Internal Affairs Minister Kirunda Kivejinja said the police force "within its constitutional mandate restored law and order" removing road blocks and "disengaging crowds" after the riots.
He refused to comment on the use of live rounds by security forces.
"That one we will have to investigate," he said AFP / PTI
