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MPONDWE - Grieving families prepared to bury their dead in western Uganda on Sunday while others desperately searched for loved ones still missingOfficials say at least 41 people, mostly students, were massacred on Friday in the worst attack of its kind in Uganda since 2010.
Fifteen others from the community, including five girls, were still missing, said Mr Eriphaz Muhindi, chairman of Kasese district, which shares a long and forested border with DR Congo. Thirty-seven students died in the attack, said Uganda’s first lady Janet Museveni, who is also the education minister.
The African Union, France and the United States, a close ally of Uganda, offered their condolences and condemned the bloodshed.
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