What the records say
- When
- 16 Jun 2023
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Killed
- 42
- Coordinates
- 0.03° N, 29.74° E
- Wounded
- 8
Mpondwe school massacre
2023 mass murder in Uganda
On 16 June 2023 rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a jihadist group linked to the Islamic State, attacked a secondary school in Mpondwe, a town in western Uganda's Kasese District on the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 42 people were killed, including 38 students; 8 were injured.
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- Wikidata: terrorist attacks outside GTD’s yearsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “massacre de l'école de Mpondwe”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Se da un ataque a una escuela secundaria en Uganda por parte de un grupo rebelde islámico, falleciendo 40 adolescentes y secuestrando a varias mujeres”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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