NEWS- Another suspected ADF attack on Kamwenge District in Nyabitutsi village, Kyabandara Sub County has left three people dead.
The incident according to reports happened on Christmas day night at around 8pm. The deceased include one Adrine Rwabizi 75 and her two grandchildren.
Kamwenge Resident District Commissioner, Isiah Byarugaba Kanyamahane said the victims’ house was also set ablaze during the Christmas Day attack. “It’s true three people were killed by ADF rebels and their house was burnt. I am at the scene establishing more facts,” he said.
By the time of this story publication, efforts were still underway to ascertain if there were more casualties.
One of the first responders, a resident, who arrived at the scene at around 6am on Tuesday, said he found the house already burnt with the victims’ charred bodies buried in the ash.
“Yesterday (Monday), we reported to police after seeing suspicious people in the village. They sent their patrol team but after a few hours, they left and promised to return today (Tuesday) with their canine dogs. But by the time I arrived here, there were no security personnel,” he said
The attack comes a week after 10 people were killed in Kitehurizi village, Kyabandara parish, Kamwenge Sub County by suspected militants who looted food, money and set houses ablaze.
Similar attacks have in the past days been witnessed in border areas neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, especially Kasese District which has reported recurring raids by the suspected militants whom President Museveni has more than once described as pigs and promised to crush before assuring the nation that the ADF were defeated.
According to him, the assailants might be “remnants of a defeated ADF group in DRC” fleeing from Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) which in November 2021 launched a joint operation with the Congolese national army against the militants.
