At least 37 people are dead and eight injured after an attack on a secondary school in western Uganda, according to authorities, with fears that the majority of those killed are students.
“On arrival, the school was found burning with dead bodies of students lying in the compound,” according to the statement.told the Associated Press
that the death toll stood at 41, including 38 students, one guard and two members of the local community. Mapoze said some of the students suffered fatal burns after the attackers set fire to a dormitory, while others were shot or hacked with machetes. Authorities have blamed the attack in the town of Mpondwe — about 1.2 miles from the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo — on the ADF rebel group.
“Our forces are pursuing the enemy to rescue those abducted and destroy this group,” the spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense“A hot pursuit by the UPDF [Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces] and the police is ongoing, toward Virunga National Park,” police spokesman Fred Enanga
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