KAMPALA—Terrorists linked to ISIS terrorist group killed 37 people and abducted six others in an attack on a school in western Uganda near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the military said on Saturday.
Military personnel found the bodies of the dead when they arrived at the school, defence spokesperson Felix Kulayigye said in a statement.
“Our forces are pursuing the enemy to rescue those abducted and destroy this group,” he said earlier on Twitter. The attackers, from the terrorist group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), fled towards Virunga National Park in Congo, police said.
Police said eight other people were in hospital with critical injuries after the attack at the Lhubirira Secondary School in Mpondwe….