Two international vacationers and their Ugandan information have been killed in an assault by suspected Islamist rebels, police have mentioned.
The assault occurred within the Queen Elizabeth National Park – considered one of Uganda’s hottest conservation areas – based on police.
“We have registered a cowardly terrorist attack on two foreign tourists and a Ugandan in Queen Elizabeth National Park,” police spokesperson Fred Enanga wrote on X, previously Twitter.
“The three were killed, and their safari vehicle burnt,” he added.
Mr Enanga mentioned police had been pursuing suspected members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) – an armed group aligned with Islamic State (IS).
A spokesperson for the Uganda Wildlife Authority, Bashir Hangi, mentioned the assault came about on the outskirts of the park on Tuesday night.
Mr Hangi mentioned the authority was working with safety companies “to establish who could have carried out this heinous act”.
He didn’t give particulars on the vacationers’ nationalities.
The park is positioned in a distant space of Uganda, on the japanese financial institution of Lake Edward and close to the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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The ADF – a bunch thought-about a terrorist organisation by the Ugandan authorities – was initially fashioned out of western Uganda, however later expanded into the neighbouring DRC.
From its formation in 1996 till 2019, it was one united group. However, it fragmented following the arrest of its long-term chief, Jamil Mukulu.
Under its new management, the group pledged affiliation to the Islamist terror group IS in 2019, and joined its central African division.
Ugandan troops are at the moment working alongside regional forces within the DRC to seek out ADF rebels.
In June, the group was accused of massacring at the least 41 individuals, most of them college students, in a raid on a distant Ugandan neighborhood close to the border.
Source: information.sky.com”