Authorities blame the deadly attack on the ISIL-linked Allied Democratic Forces.
Ednews informs via Al-Jazeera that police in Uganda say at least 25 people have been killed in a suspected rebel attack on a school near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a government official saying people were also feared abducted.
Members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan group based in eastern DRC that has pledged allegiance to the ISIL (ISIS) group, attacked Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe, burning a dormitory and looting food late on Friday, police said on Saturday.
Lhubiriha school, which is privately owned, is located in the Ugandan district of Kasese, about two kilometres (1.2 miles) from the DRC border.
“So far 25 bodies have been recovered from the school and transferred to Bwera Hospital. Also recovered are eight victims, who remain in critical condition at Bwera Hospital,” Ugandan police said on Twitter.
It was not immediately clear how many of the victims were students.
Uganda’s defence spokesperson Felix Kulayigye said on Saturday that its forces were pursuing the attackers with the aim of rescuing those they abducted.
