Victims are buried after rebel attack on Ugandan school leaves 42 dead

The coffins of victims are taken to be buried (Hajarah Nalwadda/AP)

Residents of a Ugandan border town have begun burying the victims of an attack on a school by suspected extremist rebels that left 42 people dead.

One of eight people wounded in Friday night’s attack, in which 38 students were killed, died overnight, said Selevest Mapoze, mayor of the town of Mpondwe-Lhubiriha.