The militants reached the private boarding school compound just before midnight, as students were going to bed, on a partly cloudy night in a small town in the lush western fields of Uganda.
First, they shot the school’s guard in the head before they went to the students’ dormitories.
Petrified, the girls unlocked their dormitory’s doors and tried to flee, only for the assailants to catch up with them and hack them to death with machetes.
The assailants, members of an Islamist militant group, also burned the school’s library, plundered a food store and kidnapped six students, whom they used to carry the looted goods, military officials said.
As they fled the town into the dense forests of Congo, they killed three other people, including a woman in her 60s — bringing the death total to 41.
Persons:
Janet Museveni
Organizations:
Democratic
Locations:
Uganda, Mpondwe, Uganda’s, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo