The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, has “strongly” condemned the attack on a school in western Uganda, committed by militias linked to the Islamic State and which claimed 41 lives, his spokesman revealed this Saturday, quoted by AFP.
“Those responsible for this heinous act must be brought to justice,” Guterres’ spokesman Farhan Haq said in a statement issued after the worst such attack in Uganda in more than a decade. “The Secretary General extends his deepest condolences to the families of the victims,” he added, stressing that Guterres is also calling for the release of six people who were kidnapped.
A group of armed men, who acted early Saturday morning, “burned down a dormitory and looted a food store” at the school located in Mpondwe Lhubiriha, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ugandan police spokesman said. . Fred Dwarf. The agent attributed the attack, which he described as “terrorist”, to the Allied Democratic Forces militia.
Source: TSF
