Ugandan border town prepares to bury victims of rebel massacre

Thirty-eight students were killed in the attack, together with a school guard and three civilians (Hajarah Nalwadda/AP)
Thirty-eight students were killed in the attack, together with a school guard and three civilians (Hajarah Nalwadda/AP)

A Ugandan border town where an attack on a school by suspected extremist rebels left 42 dead was preparing to bury its victims on Sunday.

One of eight people wounded in Friday night’s attack on Lhubiriha Secondary School – located just over a mile from the Congo border – had died overnight, Mpondwe-Lhubiriha mayor Selevest Mapoze said.

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