Dozens Killed, Six Abducted in Attack on Uganda School

06/22/2023

Ugandan authorities recovered the bodies of 41 people, including 38 students, who were burned, shot, or hacked to death by attackers at a secondary school. 

At least six people were abducted by the rebels, who fled across the porous border into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after the grisly raid. 

Authorities blamed the massacre at Lhubiriha Secondary School in the border town of Mpondwe on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group with ties to ISIL (ISIS), which has been launching attacks for years from bases in volatile eastern DRC. 

It was the deadliest attack in Uganda since twin bombings in Kampala in 2010 killed 76 in an attack claimed by the Somalia-based al-Shabab group. 

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