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The victims included the students, one guard and two members of the local community who were killed outside the school.

We, the residents of this area, are very scared. >> reporter: the allied democratic forces, or adf, that the government is blaming for this attack, began here in uganda in the 90s, opposing the rule of the president and crossed over into the drc and it is a ma lev lent force and they're trying to stamp it out and we are trying to get rid of them. this is a strong statement from this group, that they will continue to pose a serious threat to this country and the drc, and the head of the military here in uganda, the operation in the drc, saying they were in town for at least two day, and they we...

Isabel rosales in perryton texas, thank you very much. we have a horrific story out of western uganda to bring you, where officials say that rebel extremists armed with machetes attacked a secondary school on friday night. then they set it on fire. killing 41 people. most of whom were students. six others were also abducted. authorities say that the attackers are part of a group that is linked to isis. cnn has more from uganda's capital, what you are learning, larry? >> reporter: alex, we're trying to piece together exactly what happened in this friday night massacre at this school. it is a ...

Uganda, and it is really very reminiscent of some of the attacks that happened way back in the 1990s, committed by the adf in that area, largely on schools, possibly because that creates large waves of publicity, but also it is possible that they may have been trying to recruit, as well, and sees people. we are yet to hear whether the ugandan military has had any success as it tries to pursue the rebels across the border and rescue those people who have been abducted. d0 across the border and rescue those people who have been abducted. do i understand that it is mostjustly from the air that th...

The adf is an islamist group formed in uganda, they waged war against the government in the 1990s. they were based in that same region in the mountains and were pushed in the 19905 into the drc. but even then, their methods of operation were very similar to what happened friday night. they attacked trucks and buses, and a 1998, they attacked a technical school and killed about 80 students there, they burned their dormitories down as well. but in the last couple decades, they've only been based in the drc except for 2021, when a series of suicide bombs in kampala were blamed on them. the rebels...