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Lead prosecutor in Ugandan Al-Shabaab bombing trial shot dead

Medics at the Mulago hospital in Kampala attend to World Cup final watchers caught in the July, 2010 terrorist bombings.Photo:Reuters

Uganda's lead prosecutor in the ongoing trial of 13 men accused of participating in 2010 Al-Shabaab bombings that killed 76 people was shot dead Monday, police said.

Joan Kagezi, acting assistant director of public prosecution, was murdered by men on a motorbike as she drove home in a suburb of the capital, Kampala police spokesman Patrick Onyango said. "They were trailing her on a motorcycle.... They shot her dead."

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