Reports say twin explosions were heard on Tuesday in Uganda, near the parliamentary building and opposite the central police station in Kampala.

Local television stations telecast live pictures of cars burning and ambulances rushing to the scene of the blasts.

Deputy Speaker of Ugandan Parliament, Anita Among, tweeted that the originally planned parliamentary sitting has been called off and advised legislators not to come to parliament.

It was gathered that the casualty ward of the main hospital in Kampala, is filled with people who were injured by the morning blasts.

One of the blasts went off near the Central Police Station in Kampala’s central business district.

It would be recalled that last month, Kampala was hit by two separate bomb explosions that left two people dead and several injured.

The Police however, blamed the attacks on the Allied Democratic Forces, an affiliate of the Islamic State in Central Africa.