AMN / WEB DESK
Around 40 people, mostly students, were killed and eight others injured in an attack at a school in Uganda by rebels suspected of being affiliated with the Islamic State group on Friday.
The majority of the children killed at the Lhubiriha secondary school in Kasese area of western Uganda were in dormitories. Authorities said several others, mostly girls, have been abducted.
The attack has been blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
According to the Ugandan army, five suspected ADF rebels carried out the raid, torching the school buildings and robbing the food store.
The army said a number of kids are still missing, and the precise number of those killed remains unknown.
The Ugandan army has sent helicopters to assist in tracking the rebel group over mountainous terrain.