An attack on the Ugandan border killed 42 people. The mayor of Mpondwe-Lhubiriha, Selevest Mapoze, said that one of the eight people who w...
An attack on the Ugandan border killed 42 people.
The mayor of Mpondwe-Lhubiriha, Selevest Mapoze, said that one of the eight people who were hurt in the attack on Friday night that killed 38 students died overnight.
On Sunday, people in a town near Uganda's border started burying those who died in an attack on a school that is thought to have been done by radical rebels. 42 people, most of them students, have died, and security forces are stepping up patrols along the country's border with eastern Congo.
"Most of the people who died had family members take their bodies from the morgue," the mayor said.
In addition to the 38 kids, the attack also killed a school guard and three other people who were not students. At least two of them were related, and their funerals were all on the same day, Sunday.
Some of the students were burned so badly that it was hard to tell who they were. Others were shot, and others were killed with machetes. This happened when gunmen with guns and machetes attacked Lhubiriha High School, which is more than a mile from the Congo border. The Ugandan government thinks that at least six students were taken and put on a cargo plane as workers.
In a statement, António Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations, condemned the attack and stressed "the importance of cooperation, including strengthening regional alliances, to solve the border security problem between Congo and Uganda and restore peace."
The ADF, which rarely takes credit for attacks, was blamed for the attack. She also got to know people in the IS group.
In a statement he released on Sunday, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni gave his first reaction to the attack. He called it "a heinous crime, a senseless act of terrorism," and he promised to send more troops to the area. Uganda border.
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