KAMPALA — At least seven people were killed in violence overnight in central Uganda, police said on Friday,as President Yoweri Museveni has dominated results of Thursday's presidential election.
The opposition said they were attacked by security forces in the home of an MP in Butambala, about 55km south-west of the capital, Kampala, while police blame the violence on the opposition.
Results announced by the electoral commission showed Museveni with over 75% of votes in Thursday's presidential election, based on tallies from 59% of polling stations. His main challenger, popular singer Bobi Wine, trailed on about 21% and the remaining votes were split among six other candidates.

Wine's home in Kampala has been surrounded by security forces "effectively placing him and his wife under house arrest", his National Unity Platform (NUP) said.
The internet shutdown imposed earlier in the week means news of the violence is only emerging on Friday in Uganda.
Opposition MP Muwanga Kivumbi told the AFP news agency that soldiers and police fired tear gas and then live bullets at hundreds of people who were following early results at his home.
Human rights activist Agather Atuhaire confirmed this account to the Reuters news agency.
After a campaign marred by clashes at opposition rallies and what the United Nations said was widespread repression and intimidation, voting passed peacefully on Thursday.
But violence broke out overnight in the town of Butambala, according to a police spokesperson and a member of parliament from the area, who gave differing accounts of events.
Local police spokesperson Lydia Tumushabe said machete-wielding opposition "goons" organized by Kivumbi attacked a police station and vote-tallying centre.
"Security responded in self-defence because these people came in big numbers. Police fired in self defence," she told Reuters, adding that 25 people were arrested.
Kivumbi, however, told Reuters the victims were killed at around 3 a.m. (midnight GMT) inside his house, where they were waiting for the results from the election for his parliamentary seat to be announced.
"They killed 10 people inside my house," he said. "There were people inside the garage who were waiting for the results to celebrate my victory."
"They broke the front door and began shooting inside the garage. It was a massacre."
He said security forces had earlier dispersed crowds outside but disputed the police's assertion that the deaths occurred during clashes between the two sides.
Tumushabe, the police spokesperson, said she was not aware of an incident at Kivumbi's house which she said was close to the police station.
The election has been widely seen as a test of the 81-year-old Museveni's political strength and ability to avoid the kind of unrest that has rocked neighbours Tanzania and Kenya.
Museveni had told reporters after casting his ballot on Thursday that he expected to win with 80% of the vote "if there's no cheating".
Wine alleged mass fraud during the election, which was held under an internet blackout that authorities said was needed to prevent "misinformation", and called on supporters to protest. — Agencies