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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rodney Muhumuza

Ugandan border town prepares to bury victims of rebel massacre that left 42 dead, mostly students

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A bereaved Ugandan border town on Sunday prepared to bury victims of a brutal attack by suspected extremist rebels on a school that left 42 dead, most of them students, as security forces stepped up patrols along the frontier with volatile eastern Congo.

One of eight people wounded in Friday night's attack, in which 38 students were killed, died overnight, said Mpondwe-Lhubiriha Mayor Selevest Mapoze.

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