Ugandan police said Monday that in an operation around Kampala's city centre, they arrested 120 people suspected to have been using narcotics.

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However, members of the LGBTQ community say it was a health meeting that police interrupted.

Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, tells VOA they received intelligence information that the site of the raid — The Ram Bar — is used as a massage parlor during day and for smoking opium and shisha during the night.

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