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At Least 40 Killed in Militant Attack on Ugandan School

by VOA News

   At least 40 people have been killed in a terrorist attack on a school
   in western Uganda, police said Saturday.

   At least eight people, police said, were injured in the attack by
   militants linked to the Islamic State group, on the Lhubirira secondary
   school in Mpondwe, near the border with the Democratic Republic of
   Congo.

   It was not immediately clear how many of the victims are children.

   Soldiers are in pursuit of the assailants who fled toward Virunga
   National Park.