The families of the victims of the Uganda school massacre on Monday awaited the results of DNA tests to identify the remains of the 41 deceased, most of them schoolchildren.
The victims were beaten to death, shot or burned to death at the Lhubiriha school in the western town of Mpondwe, near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where jihadist militias are based. that the authorities have been charged with the attack.
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The families of the victims of the Uganda school massacre on Monday awaited the results of DNA tests to identify the remains of the 41 deceased, most of them schoolchildren.
The victims were beaten to death, shot or burned to death at the Lhubiriha school in the western town of Mpondwe, near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where jihadist militias are based. that the authorities have been charged with the attack.
Another 15 parishioners, including five girls, are missing.
The army and police blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a rebel group with ties to the Islamic State jihadist group.
Many of the victims were burned when the attackers set fire to a communal dormitory, making identification and counting difficult.
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“We are not sure if our children are among the abducted or burned students. We mourn, maybe the government will give us an answer quickly and we pray,” Joseph Masika, a tutor for one of the students, told AFP.
Kesese County Commissioner Joe Walusimbi, where the school is located, said most of the identified victims were buried Sunday, but burials resumed Monday.
“We have almost completed the burial of the dead already identified and are awaiting the DNA tests of the students who are so badly burned that they are unrecognizable,” he said.
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Friday was the bloodiest attack in Uganda since 2010, when 76 people were killed in a dual attack by the Somali jihadist group Al Shabab in Kampala.
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