June 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ugandan authorities reported on Tuesday the rescue of three people and the death of two jihadists in the framework of a military operation after the weekend attack on a school in the west of the country, which left more than 40 dead. most of them students.
The Ugandan Army spokesman, Brigadier General Felix Kulayigye, said that two minors and a woman have been rescued in the Virunga National Park, already in the territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“The soldiers ambushed the rebels and killed two of them and took their weapons,” he added, speaking to the BBC. The rescue of these three people is added to the arrest on the eve of about twenty suspects. It is believed that there would be at least six other people kidnapped
Over the weekend, the Ugandan Army confirmed an attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a group linked to Islamic State, against a school in the town of Kasese, killing 42 people.
The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, described the perpetrators of the massacre as “cowards” and promised the Army would continue to persecute the jihadists in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it is participating in joint operations to deal with the threat posed by the group.
The ADF was created in the 1990s and is especially active in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where it has been accused of killing hundreds of civilians. Their goal would be to return to Uganda, where they left in 2003 after several military operations that drastically reduced their capabilities.
