Uganda buries victims of massacre that left 42 dead, as president vows to hunt attackers ‘into extinction’
- Dozen of people, mostly students, were massacred on Friday in an attack blamed on a group with links to Islamic State
- Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni vowed to hunt those responsible ‘into extinction’, ordering more troops to border region
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Uganda town buries young victims of brutal terrorist school attack
One of eight people wounded in Friday night’s attack, in which 38 students were killed, died overnight, said Selevest Mapoze, mayor of the town of Mpondwe-Lhubiriha.
“Most of the relatives have come to take their bodies” from the morgue, he said.
In addition to the 38 students, the victims include a school guard and three civilians. At least two of them, members of the same family, were buried on Sunday.
Some students were burned beyond recognition; others were shot or hacked to death after militants armed with guns and machetes attacked Lhubiriha Secondary School, co-ed and privately owned, which is located about 2km (just over a mile) from the Congo border.
Ugandan authorities believe at least six students were abducted, taken as porters back inside Congo.
