American aid worker killed in Uganda explosion
Among the 74 people killed at a party in Uganda‘s capital with the occasion of the World Cup final was an American aid worker.
Six more members of a Pennsylvania church group were also wounded in the bombing. The American, Nate Henn, was working with Uganda’s child soldiers and died in Kampala while watching the game. The 25 years old man was sponsored by the Invisible Children, and was remembered as a devoted activist of the child soldiers’ cause. Lori Ssebulime, Emily and Joanne Kerstetter, Kris Sledge, and Pam and Thomas Kramer were the six missionaries hurt in the blast also while watching the game at the Ethiopian restaurant. Gerald Wolgemuth, the Director of Communications for the Susquehanna Conference, said that they were supposed to come earlier in the United States but chose to stay there to repair the wall of the local church.
Emily Kerstette will be taken by plane to a trauma hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa where the doctors will try to reconstruct her leg, which is very badly injured. Joanne, her grandmother, has a fractured humorous but she is able to travel with Emily to Johannesburg. Kris Sledge is going to be treated in Kenya, but Pam Kramer will have to undergo surgery when she returns to the United States and her son Thomas Kramer will have to be operated right away.
