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Nearly 40 pupils have been killed at a school in western Uganda by rebels linked to the Islamic State group (IS). Five militants attacked the Lhubiriha secondary school in Mpondwe at around 23:30 (20:30 GMT) on Friday. They entered dormitories, setting fire and using machetes to kill and maim the pupils, officials said.

The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) - based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - have been blamed and a manhunt is under way. Uganda's information minister said 37 students were confirmed to have been killed but did not give their ages. Twenty of them were attacked with machetes and 17 of them burned to death, Chris Baryomunsi told the BBC. Survivors said the rebels threw a bomb into the dormitory after the machete attack. It is not clear if this resulted in a fire in the building which was reported earlier.

In June 1998, 80 students were burnt to death in their dormitories in an ADF attack on Kichwamba Technical Institute near the border of DRC. More than 100 students were abducted.

If this doesn't remind you of the Heroes of Beslan, it should.

On September 1, 2004, armed Chechen rebels took approximately 1,200 children and adult hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, at approximately 9 a.m. local time.

The siege ended on September 3, 2004, with more than 330 killed, including 186 children, and more than 700 people wounded.These people always talk in high ideals but, whenever possible, attack the most innocent, the most vulnerable, the least armed, and strangely, those with almost no input to whatever the struggle is said to be. Schools, nunneries, churches, hospitals--not hunting grounds because scavengers are not hunters.
(some from BBC article)