Militants linked to the Islamic State group massacred at least 37 people and abducted six others in western Uganda, the army said Saturday, June 17, 2023, in the country's worst such attack in years.
The military said it was pursuing the attackers from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) after they raided a school late Friday near the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Officials said dormitories were locked and set alight and students cut down with knives in a grisly late-night assault on Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe.
Police and army officials blamed the ADF, one of the deadliest militias over the border in DR Congo's strife-torn east, which the Islamic State group has called its local offshoot.
"Unfortunately, 37 bodies have been discovered and conveyed to Bwera hospital mortuary," Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF) spokesman Felix Kulayigye said in a statement, referring to a town near the attack.
He said eight people were injured and six others kidnapped and taken toward Virunga National Park, a vast expanse which straddles the borders.
In June 1998, 80 students were burnt to death in their dormitories in an ADF attack on Kichwamba Technical Institute near the Dr Congo border. More than 100 students were abducted.
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