The assailants attacked Lhubirira Secondary School in the western border town of Mpondwe late on Friday, burning a dormitory and looting food, police said.
Military official says some attackers were in town two days before incident
Military personnel found the bodies of the dead when they arrived at the school, defence spokesperson Felix Kulayigye said in a statement. Police said eight other people were in hospital with critical injuries after the attack at the Lhubirira Secondary School in Mpondwe. Major General Dick Olum, the army's commander for western Uganda and in charge of a military deployment in the Democratic Republic of Congo, said the attackers had stayed in the town two days before the attack, marking their target."That is how the attackers came and locked the boys' door. The boys really tried to fight back, but they were overpowered.
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