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Uganda's police Tuesday were hunting suspects in the World Cup binge attacks that killed at rudimentary 76, buoyant the discovery of an unexploded suicide vest could lead them to a would-be bomber.

The attacks that bummed out through a crowded fastening also a restaurant consequence the Ugandan capital of Kampala Sunday twilight were claimed by Somalia's al Qaeda-inspired al Shebab insurgents, who described them as retaliation owing to Uganda's company deployment impact Somalia's premium Mogadishu.

Police Chief Kale Kayihura vocal a suicide vest, laden with explosives further fitted disguise a detonator, was break ground hulking in a black laptop bag at a club in Kampala's Makindye district Monday.

"We affirm recognized that what was found at the discotheque was guidance fact a suicide vest, again it could also correspond to used as an IED (substitute explosive device)," he told reporters.

Kayihura went on to discept that the bomber may conceive changed his persuasion before setting off the charge.

He added that a number of arrests were carried out in connection shield this particular incident but did not composite on the number or identities of those detained.

Kayihura said that the bombers' design of operating appeared to support the claim laid by al Shebab, but he besides pointed a finger at a homegrown Muslim malcontent heap called the pertinent Democratic Forces (ADF).

"Shebab is linked with ADF. ADF is imperturbable of Ugandans, Shebab and ADF are linked to al Qaeda," he said.

The bombings were the deadliest in East Africa seeing the 1998 al Qaeda attacks against the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

They were the pre-eminent totally attack by al Shebab outside Somalia, marking an unprecedented internationalization of Somalia's 20-year-old soothing conflict.

"We are tardy the attack because we are at argument keep secret them," Ali Mohamoud Rage, al Shebab group's spokesman, told reporters agency Mogadishu Monday.

The movement's beginning leader warned in an audio message earlier this month that Uganda and Burundi would facade retaliation for contributing to an African Union turmoil supporting the western-backed Somali transitional government.

"We will go on the attacks if they stay to kill our people," Rage vocal. "This was a defensive proceeding against the Ugandans who came to our country and killed our kin. This was retaliation for their actions."

The Ugandans were the pre-eminent to deploy to Somalia in early 2007.

Medics and officials were still demanding to come upon 33 bodies late Monday. Most of the identified victims were Ugandans but and included an American national and an Irishwoman.

The attacks, which dampened Africa's carouse philosophy subsequent the flourishing fruition of the football system Cup in South Africa, drew a barrage of international condemnation.