At least 37 students and four adults were killed in assault on a Canadian-funded boarding school near Uganda’s border with Congo
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At least 41 killed in rebel attack on Ugandan school near Congo borderUgandan authorities recovered the bodies of 41 people, including 38 students, who were burned, shot or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked a secondary school near the border with Congo, the local mayor said Saturday. At least six people were abducted by the rebels, who fled across the porous border into Congo after the raid on Friday night, according to the Ugandan military. Authorities blamed the massacre at Lhubiriha Secondary School in the border town of Mpondwe on the Allied Democratic Forces, a shadowy extremist group with ties to the Islamic State, which has been launching attacks for years from bases in volatile eastern Congo.
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At least 25 killed in rebel attack on Ugandan school near Congo borderUgandan police say at least 25 people have been killed in a suspected rebel attack on a school near the Congo border. Police said in a statement Saturday that the Allied Democratic Forces carried out the attack late Friday night on a school in the border town of Mpondwe. The school is located about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the Congo border. “A dormitory was burnt and a food store looted. So far 25 bodies have been recovered from the school and transferred to Bwera Hospital,” the statement said, adding that eight others are in critical condition. The statement said Ugandan government troops followed the attackers into Congolese territory.
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At least 25 killed in rebel attack on Ugandan school near Congo borderUgandan police say at least 25 people have been killed in a suspected rebel attack on a school near the Congo border.
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At least 41 killed in rebel attack on Ugandan school near Congo borderThe mayor of the border town says some of the students suffered fatal burns when the rebels set fire to a dormitory and others were shot or hacked with machetes.
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At least 41 killed in rebel attack on Ugandan school near Congo borderThe mayor of the border town says some of the students suffered fatal burns when the rebels set fire to a dormitory and others were shot or hacked with machetes.
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At least 41 killed in rebel attack on Ugandan school near Congo borderUgandan authorities recovered the bodies of 41 people — including 38 students — who were burned, shot or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked a secondary school near the border with Congo.
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