2023-06-17 09:57:49
The ADF militia, which began as an insurgent group, of jihadist affiliation would have set fire to the secondary school
At least 25 people were killed in a “terrorist attack” on a school in western Uganda at the hands of a jihadist-affiliated militia, a police spokesman said Saturday.
“So far 25 bodies have been collected from the school and taken to Bwera hospital,” spokesman Fred Enanga said, referring to a town near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ugandan defense forces are chasing down the attackers at a school in the west of the country to rescue the people they kidnapped, their spokesman said on Saturday, Reuters reports.
“Our forces are pursuing the enemy to rescue the hostages and destroy this group,” Defense spokesman Felix Kulayigye said on Twitter.
For his part, Enanga explained that the ADF militia (Allied Democratic Forces), which has its stronghold in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), attacked a secondary school near Bwera, where he set fire to a dormitory and ransacked a grocery store.
The spokesman said that they were also rescued alive eight victims, who “are in a critical situation at the Bwera hospital.
The ADF militia began as an insurgent group in Uganda and settled in eastern DRC in the 1990s. Since then it has been accused of killing thousands of civilians.
Since 2019, some attacks by this militia in eastern DRC were claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State, which presents its fighters as a local branch.
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