Attackers suspected to be Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels have brutally murdered ten people in Uganda’s western town of Kamwenge.
The assailants, who attacked on Monday night, killed four people in a Kitehurizi trading center in the parish of Kyabandara in Kamwenge Sub County.
The bodies of the victims were set ablaze in a structure housing a shop and hotel.
The attackers also hacked six other people to death at a maize farm the same night, where they were keeping watch.
The victims of the ADF deadly killings include a female councilor from Kyanadara Parish who was only known by her nickname, Night, according to locals.
The identities of the other victims are yet to be identified as the Uganda Police are looking to respond to the attack.
The attackers also torched a cereal store.
The Kamwenge killing comes days after President Yoweri Museveni declared on December 13 that airstrikes undertaken by Uganda in September in the Democratic Republic of the Congo killed at least 200 rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), who were part of the Islamic State organization.
The ADF, who were predominantly Muslim rebels from Uganda, have been fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo since the mid-1990s, killing thousands of people in the process.
In 2019, they pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, which now claims some of their actions and presents them as its “Central African Province” affiliate.
President Museveni said on X, formerly Twitter, “We have been carrying out air attacks on the terrorists in Congo,” then later claimed that around “200 of them were killed” in strikes were executed on September 16.
The leader of the East African country added that multiple strikes have been carried out since then without giving further information.
The security agencies in Kamwenge are yet to give a full report after the attack.
