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Parents submit DNA samples to ID Uganda school massacre victims

The relative of a victim of the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School mourns as she leans towards a coffin outside the Bwera General Hospital mortuary in Kasese, on June 18, 2023 [Stuart Tibaweswa / AFP] (AFP)

Parents of students missing after an attack on a school in western Uganda are flocking to the local police station to submit DNA samples that could identify their children among the 42 bodies that have been recovered.

One of Uganda’s biggest massacres in recent decades occurred on Friday night at Lhubirira Secondary School. Assailants set a dormitory full of boys alight, then attacked a dormitory full of girls, hacking victims to death with machetes and knives.

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