Several people are killed in an ADF attack in Uganda
Five people have been killed while several others have been injured in an attack suspected to be carried out by rebels of a group called Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in western Uganda.
The Reuters news agency announced the news yesterday Tuesday and explained that the ADF rebels carried out the killing after attacking the village of Kyabandara, most of whose residents are Christians in Kamwenge District, western Uganda. The member of parliament in the area, Cuthbert Abigaba, has been quoted by Reuters as saying that among the people killed in the attack by ADF militants is a local councillor. The spokesperson of the Ugandan Army, Deo Akiiki has confirmed the news of the attack. More information says that, apart from committing murders in the area, ADF fighters also set fire to a restaurant and stole from several shops. ADF rebels have been operating in the forests of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo for more than two decades now, and have been carrying out attacks inside that country and sometimes inside Ugandan territory. ADF fighters Last month, the Ugandan Army announced that it had killed six ADF rebels and arrested a commander believed to be responsible for the murder of two foreign tourists and their Ugandan guide in a zoo in the west of the country near the DRC border. Before that, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda announced that the country's army has brutally killed 560 fighters of the ADF terrorist group. The Ugandan UPDF army in collaboration with the DR Congo army has been fighting armed groups for almost two years now.
