At least 40 folks, most of them college students, have been killed in a suspected insurgent assault on a college in Uganda, officers have mentioned.

Other college students have been kidnapped and a dormitory within the faculty has been set on fireplace within the assault, believed to have been carried out by Ugandan militants with ties to the Islamic State group.

The mayor of Mpondwe the city the place the assault befell, close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, mentioned 41 our bodies have thus far been recovered, together with 38 college students.

Mayor Selevest Mapoze mentioned that whereas a number of the college students had suffered deadly burns within the dormitory fireplace, others had been shot or hacked with machetes.

One guard and two members of the local people had been additionally shot and killed outdoors the college, he mentioned.

According to Ugandan police, the raid was carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), who've been launching assaults from their bases in Democratic Republic of the Congo for years.

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