The carnage that killed 74 innocent football fans watching the world cup in Uganda's capital has claimed at least six confirmed Ethiopian nationals according to Ethiopia's ambassador to Uganda, the Daily Monitor said.

Ethiopia’s Ambassador to Uganda Terfa Mengesha told Daily Monitor by telephone that preliminary reports had indicated that six Ethiopian nationals had been confirmed dead. “I think the other four were Eritrean,” he told the paper.

Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba told journalists that of the dead, 15 were killed at the Ethiopian Village and 49 at Lugogo Rugby Club, adding that 10 of the dead were either Ethiopian or Eritrean. She was speaking before the death toll rose to 74.

Preliminary reports cited by Daily Monitor puts the death toll at 74 and among these Twenty-eight were Ugandans, 11 Ethiopians/Eritreans, one Irish lady and an Asian. Thirty-three people are still unidentified