Kyadondo Rugby Club is a

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ground in

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. It was built in 2000. Facilities include main ground, a training pitch and a club house. The ground is home to several club teams, among them Heathens RFC, a leading rugby club in Uganda. It has also hosted home games of the

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, but the

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is considering hosting games at the

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due to limited capacity of Kyadondo. The club has also been a concert venue,

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is among the high-profile performers.

July 2010 Kampala attacks

Kyadondo Rugby Club was one of the two scenes of the

July 2010 Kampala attacks On 11 July 2010, suicide bombings were carried out against crowds watching a screening of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final at two locations in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. The attacks left 74 dead and 85 injured. Al-Shabaab, an Islamis ...

. The second attack, consisting of two explosions in quick succession, occurred at at Kyadondo Rugby Club, where state-run newspaper ''

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'' was hosting a screening of the match. According to eyewitnesses, there was an explosion near the 90th minute of the match, followed seconds later by a second explosion that knocked out the lights at the field. An explosion went off directly in front of a large screen that was showing the telecast from South Africa, killing 49 people. The discovery of a severed head and leg at the rugby field suggests that it was a

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carried out by an individual. A third unexploded vest was later found.English.aljazeera.net
English.aljazeera.net (13 July 2010). Retrieved on 6 July 2011.

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