Muscat: The Sultanate of Oman has expressed its sincere condolences and sympathy to the government of the Republic of Uganda over the attack that targeted a school in western Uganda near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has left some deaths and injuries, on Saturday.
The Sultanate of Oman has voiced its condemnation over the malicious attack, emphasizing its firm stance of rejecting all forms of violence and terrorism.
Suspected rebels attacked a school in a remote area of Uganda near the Congo border, killing at least 41 people in a nighttime raid before fleeing across the porous frontier, authorities said. Thirty-eight students in their dormitories were among the victims.
Some students were burned beyond recognition, and others were shot or hacked to death after militants armed with guns and machetes attacked the school in the frontier district of Kasese.
In addition to the 38 students, one guard and two residents of the local community in Mpondwe-Lhubiriha town were killed in the attack.
The school, co-ed and privately owned, is located about two kilometers (just over a mile) from the Congo border.
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