KAMPALA: Uganda has arrested three people over last week's attack on a school in the remote west of the country that killed 41 people, a senior official in the area told AFP on Monday (Jun 19). 'Thr
in the remote west of the country that killed 41 people, a senior official in the area told AFP on Monday .
Grief-stricken Ugandans were on Monday burying more victims of the massacre at the Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe, which has been blamed on a notorious militia based in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. "We are not sure our children are among those abducted or burnt beyond recognition. We are distressed, maybe the government will give us an answer soon and we are praying," the 48-year-old businessman told AFP.
Walusimbi said most of the identified victims were buried on Sunday but that there were more funerals on Monday.
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