(UPI) – Dozens of schoolchildren were among those slain by suspected Islamic State-aligned rebels in an attack on a secondary school in western Uganda, officials said Saturday.
Local police in Mpondwe, Uganda, said in a statement that rebels affiliated with the Allied Democratic Forces had entered the country late Friday from their base in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo and killed 25 schoolchildren at Lhubiriha Secondary School.
The attackers looted the school and set its dormitories on fire, he said, adding the ADF attackers were being pursued into the DRC’s Virunga National Park by the Ugandan army.