Suspected armed robbers, on Wednesday night, stormed the Lotisan Sub County in Moroto District’s Atedeoi Primary School, Uganda, and killed a female teacher, leaving her husband and child critically injured and battling for their lives in the hospital.
According to Mr. Julius Okello, a teacher at the school in the unrest-ridden Karamoja subregion of northeastern Uganda, the incident took place at 10 p.m., when a group of close to 10 armed men overpowered a security guard carrying a bow and arrow.
He claimed that the alleged robbers began their assault on the classroom block before moving on to the instructors’ block, where they killed Joy Chebet, a teacher who had been volunteering at the school.
“In a scuffle that followed, Chebet’s husband, Peter Chepskor was shot in the shuttered testicles. He’s currently admitted at Moroto regional referral hospital alongside his child,” Mr Okello said.
According to Mr. Okello, attacks on Atedeoi Primary School have occurred before.
He claimed that several warriors used one classroom as a safe haven during the Covid lockdown, but security eventually caught them.
“We have actually been told to temporarily leave the school for a safer place until the situation calms down,” he said.
Ms Rose Ayuru, another said her colleague bled for over an hour before she died.
“Had the district authorities intervened early after being alerted, maybe her life would have been saved,” she said.
In order to give the instructors time to heal from the trauma brought on by last night’s incident, the school will be closed, according to Mr. Paul Oputa, the district education officer for Moroto.
“We are relocating the teachers to a safer place in Moroto town to have them recover from the trauma they went through when the warriors attacked,” the DEO said.
According to Mr. Michael Longole, the police spokesperson for the Mount Moroto district, some individuals have been taken into custody as the investigation goes on.
“The situation is calm, and the police and sister security forces are investigating the incident,” Mr Longole said.
There are nine government teachers, two support teachers, and eight additional teachers who receive assistance from Save the Children International at Atedeoi Primary School in the mineral-rich Lotisan Sub County, which has 1,038 students.
