KAMPALA: Ugandan police say not less than 25 folks have been killed in a suspected insurgent assault on a college close to the Congo border.Police mentioned in a press release Saturday that the Allied Democratic Forces carried out the assault late Friday night time on a college within the border city of Mpondwe.Lhubiriha Secondary Faculty, which is privately owned, is situated about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the Congo border.“A dormitory was burnt and a meals retailer looted. To this point 25 our bodies have been recovered from the college and transferred to Bwera Hospital,” the assertion mentioned, including that eight others are in important situation.The assertion mentioned Ugandan authorities troops tracked the attackers into Congolese territory.It was not instantly clear if the entire victims have been college students.The native Every day Monitor newspaper, citing unnamed safety sources, reported that the attackers “kidnapped a number of” others earlier than fleeing. Winnie Kiiza, an influential political chief, condemned the “cowardly assault” on Twitter.Kiiza, a former lawmaker from the area wrote, “assaults on colleges are unacceptable and are a grave violation of kids’s rights,” including that colleges ought to all the time be “a protected place” for each pupil.”The Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, is accused of launching many assaults on civilians in recent times, notably on civilian communities in distant elements of japanese Congo.The ADF has lengthy opposed the rule of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, a U.S. safety ally who has been in energy since 1986.Established within the early Nineties in Uganda, the ADF later was compelled to flee into japanese Congo, the place many insurgent teams are capable of function as a result of Congo’s central authorities has restricted management there.The ADF has ties with the Islamic State group.Ugandan authorities for years have vowed to search out the ADF’s fighters at dwelling and overseas.In 2021, Uganda launched joint air and artillery strikes in Congo towards ADF rebels — towards the ADF.
