Uganda’s fundamental opposition chief Bobi Wine ‘critically injured’ throughout police confrontation, his occasion says

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Uganda’s fundamental opposition chief Bobi Wine has been “critically injured” in a confrontation with police, his occasion the Nationwide Unity Platform (NUP) mentioned Tuesday.

The NUP mentioned in a submit on social media that Wine was shot within the leg in an try on his life, simply exterior the capital Kampala. Native police mentioned nevertheless that the damage was triggered when the popstar-turned-politician “stumbled whereas getting right into a automobile.”

Wine, whose actual title is Robert Kyagulanyi, was the principle opposition frontrunner within the presidential elections in January 2021 and misplaced to President Yoweri Museveni. Museveni claimed on the time that he had been re-elected for a sixth time period regardless of widespread allegations of fraud and intimidation.

The NUP mentioned in a submit on ‘X’ that Wine was in Bulindo to satisfy a lawyer when “the police and navy … surrounded our autos and began firing dwell bullets, teargas canisters and different projectiles.”

In line with the NUP, Wine “was clearly focused” and shot within the leg.

“Safety operatives have made an try on the lifetime of President Bobi Wine,” the NUP claimed on ‘X’.

Pictures posted on his personal ‘X’ account present Wine bleeding and mendacity in a hospital mattress, with a bleeding damage on his shin. A statement on his account mentioned he’s being handled by medical doctors after the taking pictures.

Native police instructed CNN in an announcement that they intervened after Wine’s group blocked the highway with out permission. Regardless of being warned to not arrange an occasion within the highway, Wine “insisted on continuing and shutting the highway, resulting in police intervention to forestall the procession,” the police assertion mentioned.

“Through the ensuing altercation, it’s alleged that he sustained accidents. Law enforcement officials on website declare he stumbled whereas stepping into his automobile, inflicting the damage, whereas Hon. Kyagulanyi and his workforce assert that he was shot,” the police assertion mentioned, including that an investigation is being carried out.

Wine has confronted a number of arrests by Ugandan safety forces through the years, notably within the lead-up to Uganda’s controversial elections. He instructed CNN in a 2021 interview that he felt his life was at risk.