Ugandan 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.
The Associated PressIn this image made from video, security forces drive past a crowd of people gathered outside the Lhubiriha Secondary School on Saturday, following an attack on the school near the border with Congo, in Mpondwe, Uganda, on Friday night.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.
Mapoze said that some of the students suffered fatal burns when the rebels set fire to a dormitory, while others were shot or hacked with machetes. The school, co-ed and privately owned, is located in the Ugandan district of Kasese, about two kilometres from the Congo border. The extremist group has long opposed the rule of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, a U.S. security ally who has held power in this East African country since 1986.The group was established in the early 1990s by some Ugandan Muslims, who said they had been sidelined by Museveni's policies. At the time, the rebels staged deadly attacks in Ugandan villages as well as in the capital, including a 1998 attack in which 80 students were massacred in a town not from the scene of the latest attack.
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