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Grieving households grieve for Uganda school attack victims

ByRomeo Minalane

Jul 1, 2023
Grieving households grieve for Uganda school attack victims

Troubled households collected at a mortuary in western Uganda on Sunday for any news of their liked ones after lots of trainees were eliminated in an attack by a rebel group and numerous others went missing out on.

Authorities state a minimum of 41 individuals, 38 of them trainees, were massacred at a secondary school in Mpondwe town near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late on Friday.

Victims were hacked, shot and burned to death in the attack on Lhubiriha Secondary School, leaving Uganda surprised and drawing condemnation from around the world.

The army and the authorities have actually blamed the Allied Democratic Front (ADF) armed group for the attack. The enemies abducted 6 individuals as they ran away.

The armed force stated it was pursuing the enemies and would release those abducted.

A number of the victims were burned beyond acknowledgment as the opponents set a locked dorm ablaze, aggravating efforts to recognize the dead and represent the missing out on.

At a mortuary in Bwera, a town near where the attack occurred, households wailed as the bodies of their liked ones were taken into caskets and eliminated for burial.

For numerous others, there was no news of missing out on family members. A number of the charred bodies were sent out to the city of Fort Portal for DNA screening.

It is the most dangerous attack in Uganda because 2010, when 76 individuals were eliminated in twin battles in Kampala by the Somalia-based group al-Shabab.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called it “a terrible act”, while the United States, a close ally of Uganda, and the African Union likewise condemned the bloodshed.

The army would find “these wicked individuals and they will spend for what they have actually done”, President Yoweri Museveni stated on Saturday.

Concerns have actually been raised about how the assaulters handled to avert detection in a border area with a heavy military existence.

Major General Dick Olum informed the AFP news company that intelligence recommended the existence of the ADF in the location a minimum of 2 days prior to the attack, and an examination would be required to develop what failed.

Uganda and DRC introduced a joint offensive in 2021 to drive the ADF out of the Congolese fortress, however the steps have actually mainly stopped working.

In June 1998, 80 trainees were burned to death in their dorms in an ADF attack on Uganda’s Kichwamba Technical Institute near the DRC border.

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