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Islamic State kills high school students in Uganda

Here's another source for the same article: Uganda School Attack Leaves at Least 37 Dead

At least 37 people were killed — many of them students — and eight others were wounded when militants with an extremist group attacked a secondary school in western Uganda, the authorities said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the East African nation in years.

The group, known as the Allied Democratic Forces, attacked the school on Friday night in Mpondwe, a town near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, a police spokesman said on Twitter. During the attack, a dormitory was burned and food in a store was looted, said the spokesman, Fred Enanga. All eight who were wounded were hospitalized in critical condition, he added.

Three people were rescued, but six students were abducted, a military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Felix Kulayigye, said in a statement. The attack, which began around 11:30 p.m. on Friday, was carried out by about five militants, the authorities said.
 
The article is behind a paywall... so can't read it. I wonder what the motive for the killings was.
I didn’t realize that at first and when I did I couldn’t figure out how to delete the thread. For some reason I could only find the edit link and not the delete.

Thank you
 
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