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Updated at 1227 EAT on Saturday 17th June 2023

Reports are emerging that assailants believed to be Allied Democratic Front (ADF) rebels have attacked a school in Kasese district and allegedly killed 42 students. The attack occurred on Friday night.

The mayor of the Ugandan border where suspected rebels attacked a school says 42 bodies have been recovered, including 38 students.

The Lhubirira Secondary School students were attacked while sleeping in their dormitories by the rebels. The school, in Mpondwe, is about two kilometres from the Democratic Republic of Congo border with Uganda.

Presently eight students are known to have been injured in the attack.

The rebels are said to have abducted an unknown number of students as they retreated back into the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Major Bilal Katamba, the spokesperson for Uganda’s military operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said about 20 to 25 rebels attacked the Lhubirira secondary school in Mpondwe between 11 p.m. and midnight on Friday, killing 26 students and injuring eight before lighting the school on fire.

The injured have been taken to Bwera General Hospital.

During the attack, a dormitory is said to have been burnt. The school food store was also broken into and looted.

The attack has been confirmed by Kasese Resident District Commissioner Joe Walusimbi.

Uganda Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga says police is on ground to ascertain the number of dead and missing as well as how the attack occurred.

Enanga further added that Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) are in pursuit of the group thought to be headed towards Virunga National Park.

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