Ugandan police have recovered 18 petrol bombs alleged made for use in post-election violence by unidentified people, state-owned Sunday Vision reported.

Police Chief Kale Kayihura was quoted as saying the bombs were recovered a few days ago, but he did not disclose where they had been recovered as investigation were still going on.

On Friday night, two military police personnel and three civilians were injured when a grenade was hurled at a mobile patrol police pick-up truck in Kampala.

Kayihura said the bombs were recovered with assistance from members of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) who did not want to get involved in violence.

The police chief said that they were not investigating the FDC over the bombs, but rather people who are bent on fomenting violence.

"We are looking at people as potential criminals, but not as party members. Our focus is the criminality of a person not colors. No body should mistake our actions as being against a particular party," Kayihura was quoted as saying.

Ugandans on Thursday participated in the first multiparty elections after 26 years. President Yoweri Museveni, who is leader of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), won the presidential elections with 59.28 percent votes while FDC president Kizza Besigye got 37.36 percent.

Source: Xinhua