Dad and mom of scholars lacking after an assault on a college in western Uganda are flocking to the native police station to submit DNA samples that might establish their youngsters among the many 42 our bodies which were recovered.
One in all Uganda’s largest massacres in current many years occurred on Friday night time at Lhubirira Secondary College. Assailants set a dormitory filled with boys alight, then attacked a dormitory full of ladies, hacking victims to dying with machetes and knives.
Six college students had been additionally kidnapped by the attackers, who the authorities say had been fighters from the ISIL (ISIS)-linked Allied Democratic Forces group based mostly throughout the border within the jap Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Regional police commander Tai Ramadhan mentioned lots of the our bodies had been charred past recognition, forcing investigators to make use of DNA samples from relations to attempt to establish them.
Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller studies.
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