At least 41 people were killed, mainly students, in a raid led on the night of Friday to Saturday by jihadists against a high school where a dormitory was burned in the west of Uganda.
A first assessment reported 25 dead, all students, and eight injured people in critical condition. This assessment then increased to 37 dead before reaching 41 victims, the spokesperson for the Defense Forces of the Ugandan People (UPDF), Felix Kulayigye said in a statement on Saturday in a statement.
The Ugandan army has announced that they are pursuing the attackers of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist militia who lent allegiance to the Islamic State group, after their raid against this high school located in the Kasese district, near the DR Congo border. The attackers fled to the Virunga National Park located in Congolese territory.
The high school is less than two kilometers from the border with the DR Congo, where the ADFs are active and have been accused of having killed thousands of civilians since the 1990s. The UPDF spokesperson said that the ADFs may also have kidnapped several people.
