[AFRICANEWS] Uganda is heightening security and has commenced a massive search after m Militants linked to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group massacred at least 41 people, mostly students, in western parts of the country near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo , which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
The country’s first lady Janet Museveni while updating on the current situation on Saturday evening said the government was still investigating the whole incident.
"The government through the security agencies is trying to follow up on what actually happened. And it is on the top of the situation, we believe that justice will prevail," said Janet Museveni, Ugandan minister of Education and Sports and first lady.
Officials and witnesses said guns and knives were used in a grisly late-night assault and dormitories were set ablaze at Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe.
Some students recounted the incident terming it horrific.
"We hadn't yet fallen asleep when we heard people arriving and saying: open up, open up! We didn't reply. Then they started shooting at the windows and the door. We went to hide under our beds on the floor. As they continued to shoot at the windows, one of us was hit by a bullet and started shouting: "Help, come and help me! When they couldn't open the door, they continued to shoot at the windows, then set fire to our dormitory while we were inside. They then moved on to the girls' dormitory," said Mumbere Edgar Dido, a student who survived the attack.
The military said it was pursuing the attackers from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), who also kidnapped six people during a raid on a school late Friday before fleeing back towards the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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