Suspected rebels attacked a high school in Uganda, East Africa, on Friday, killing 41 people, mostly students, according to the Associated Press (AP).

The reported attack on a school in the western Kasese district near the Congo border occurred at 11:30 pm, according to reports. AP report. A Ugandan military statement said 38 students were indistinguishably burned, shot or hacked to death inside the dormitory, while six others were abducted, the report said. A security guard and two residents of the host town of Mpondwe Rubiriha were also killed in the attack, according to the report. There were a total of 54 people in the school dormitory at the time of the attack. Kasese district official Sylvester Maseleka said there may have been others who escaped the attack. video Via AP. (Related: Family of student killed, injured in school shooting reaches settlement with school district).

According to the Associated Press, the alleged perpetrators of the attack are the United Democratic Forces, a militant group allegedly founded in the early 1990s by some Ugandan Muslims who claim to have been alienated from the Ugandan government. ADF) rebels. The ADF is suspected of carrying out numerous attacks on the Congolese side of the border, but fewer attacks on the Ugandan side due to the presence of Ugandan forces, the report said. The ADF reportedly established ties with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) at the end of 2018. U.S. Department of State.

Schools in remote African countries have become soft targets for extremist groups, threatening students who seek a decent education, the paper said. UNICEF. Infamously, the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram kidnapped about 300 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria in 2014, a rebellion that undue influence over minority Christians. announced that it caused Deutsche Welle (DW) and the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report.