KAMPALA: Militants linked to Islamic State killed 25 people in a terrorist attack on a school in western Uganda near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ugandan police said today.
Members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan group based in eastern Congo that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, attacked Lhubirira secondary school in Mpondwe, burning a dormitory and looting food late on Friday, police said.
“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.
Police did not say how many of the dead were students.
Soldiers were pursuing the attackers who fled towards Virunga National Park in Congo, police added.
In April, the ADF attacked a village in eastern Congo, killing at least 20 people.
Uganda has sent troops into Congo to help fight the ADF.