Separate Attacks In Uganda, Kenya, Leave Dozens Dead
NPR (blog) - 1 hour ago
by SCOTT NEUMAN
July 06, 2014 10:21 AM ET

Photo: Armed police walk past a truck set on fire by attackers who
raided Gamba police station at the Kenyan coast, on Sunday.
Joseph Okanga/Reuters/Landov
At least 17 people were killed in Uganda in an attack by armed gunmen
on three police stations in an area of the country that had once been
the focus of an Islamic insurgency.
Meanwhile, the al-Qaida-linked group al-Shabab has claimed
responsibility for attacking a coastal village in Kenya that left 13
people dead.
In Uganda, Paddy Ankunda, spokesman for the Uganda People's Defence
forces, was quoted by Reuters as saying that 41 of the attackers were
killed and another 12 were captured during the attacks Saturday
evening.
Reuters reports: "The gunmen, from a local militia, had no connection
to the Islamist rebel group ADF-NALU, which preyed on the local
population in the late 1990s and early 2000s before it was defeated
and forced to flee into the jungles of neighbouring Democratic
Republic of Congo."
The Associated Press quotes Fred Enanga, the Ugandan police spokesman,
in a statement early Sunday as saying that apparently coordinated
attacks were carried about by "thugs" armed with guns, spears and
machetes.
The AP says:
"The attacks took place in Kasese, Ntoroko and Bundibugyo, three
Ugandan districts with a history of anti-government insurgency and
tensions among rival tribes competing for limited natural resources in
a mountainous region of western Uganda.
"Bundibugyo, where the most deadly attacks took place, is a frontier
district located more than 300 kilometers (about 186 miles) from
Kampala, the Ugandan capital."
On the Kenya attack, Reuters says:
"According to the Lamu county commissioner Njenga Miiri, a group of
about 15 gunmen raided the Malamandi village of Hindi and started
shooting at residents.
"Kenya Red Cross chief Abbas Gulet has said that the Somalian group
al-Shabab have already claimed responsibility for the fresh attacks."
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