Uganda border town buries victims of rebel massacre that left 42 dead, mostly students
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00:00 Saro, where residents of Mpondwe start to bury their dead.
00:04 Victims of a terrorist attack on Friday night that claimed 42 lives.
00:09 The small town in western Uganda is in shock after suspected extremists from across the
00:14 border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo attacked a local secondary school.
00:20 37 of the dead were students.
00:23 "The family lost two of them who are dead.
00:31 One is still in the hospital who was beaten by a hammer on the head."
00:38 Police patrolled the streets of the town just two kilometres from the border.
00:43 The attack has been blamed on the allied democratic forces which has been fighting against the
00:47 Ugandan government for 25 years and which has links with the Islamic State group.
00:52 The vicious attack, where students were hacked with machetes and burned alive, has left people
00:58 here stunned.
00:59 "People are psychologically crippled and emotionally bleeding.
01:07 You can see it, you've been all over the place.
01:10 Everybody's asking why this community?"
01:13 One local official said that the desperate situation called for desperate measures.
01:18 "I appeal to government that they give us guns.
01:22 We go again and chase those people.
01:26 We can even provide security for our homes.
01:30 We can boost UPDF to patrol the area.
01:34 But for us to lose Robert again, for us to run again, no."
01:40 The attack has been condemned by the United Nations.
01:44 Ugandan authorities also believe at least six students were abducted and taken across
01:49 the border by the assailants.