Death toll from militant attack on school in Uganda hits 37

By Agence France-Presse

Jun 17, 2023 10:02 pm

MPONDWE, Uganda: Militants linked to the Islamic State group hacked and burned 37 students to death in western Uganda in the country's worst such attack in over a decade, army and police officials said Saturday.

The army said it was pursuing militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) after the cross-border raid late Friday on a secondary school in Mpondwe in Kasese district near the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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