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At least 37 slain as jihadists attack Ugandan school

Local residents wait for news at the site of an attack at the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe, Uganda, on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)

KAMPALA: Militants linked to the Islamic State group hacked and burned 37 students to death in western Uganda in the country’s worst such attack in over a decade, army and police officials said on Saturday.

The army said it was pursuing militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) after the cross-border raid late Friday on a secondary school in Mpondwe in Kasese district near the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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