UGANDA: Militants linked to Daesh killed at least 25 people in an attack on a secondary school in Mpondwe in western Uganda near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, local police said on Saturday.
The police, however, did not say how many of the dead were school children. Members of a Ugandan group based in eastern Congo, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) that has pledged allegiance to Daesh, attacked Lhubirira secondary school in Mpondwe, burning a dormitory and looting food late on Friday, police said.
“So far 25 bodies have been recovered from the school and transferred to Bwera Hospital. Also recovered are eight victims, who remain in critical condition at Bwera Hospital,” Ugandan police took to Twitter to give preliminary details about what happened.
The security forces were chasing the attackers who fled toward Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, police said further.
In April, the Allied Democratic Forces attacked a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 20 people. Uganda has sent troops into Congo to help fight the ADF.
