At least 40 folks, most of them college students, have been killed in a suspected insurgent assault on a college in Uganda, officers have stated.

Other college students have been kidnapped and a dormitory within the college has been set on hearth within the assault, believed to have been carried out by Ugandan militants with ties to the Islamic State group.

The mayor of Mpondwe the city the place the assault came about, close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, stated 41 our bodies have to this point been recovered, together with 38 college students.

Mayor Selevest Mapoze stated that whereas a few of the college students had suffered deadly burns within the dormitory hearth, others had been shot or hacked with machetes.

One guard and two members of the area people had been additionally shot and killed outdoors the varsity, he stated.

According to Ugandan police, the raid was carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), who've been launching assaults from their bases within the DRC for years.