Extremists from an Islamic State-allied rebel group have butchered three people in an attack on a village in western Uganda, according to a report by a military spokesman on Tuesday.
Felix Kulayigye, the military spokesman had in an audio statement sent to journalists said that the assailants from the Allied Democratic Forces, –ADF had stormed the village in Kamwenge district on Monday night, killing a 75-year-old woman and her two grandchildren before settinv the bodies on fire.
The ADF was at first, an anti-Kampala rebel group that fought the administration of President Yoweri Museveni from its hideout in the Rwenzori mountains.
After it was ambushed by the military in the late 1990s, the remnants ran across the border into the jungles of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they set up new bases.
From there, they have kept up their attacks both in Uganda and Congo against military and civilian targets.
