Kampala/Nairobi: Ugandan troops have killed 41 gunmen in a major battle with gunmen in the western district of Bundibuguyo near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda’s Army said on Sunday.
“There was an attack by tribal gunmen on our barracks in Bundibugyo and we repulsed them, killing so far 41 of the attackers. The operation is ongoing,” Army spokesman, Paddy Ankunda, said “We lost nine rifles to the attackers,” he added, but did not disclose if there were any casualties from the Army during the fighting, which took place on Saturday.
Meanwhile, at least 21 people have been killed in new attacks in Kenya’s coastal county of Lamu, the same area where some 60 people were massacred last month, the Kenyan Red Cross said on Sunday. A spokesman for Somalia’s Al Shabaab claimed that the Qaeda-linked group’s fighters had carried out another attack in the area.
In Nigeria, the military said that it had killed 53 fighters from the Islamist Boko Haram group when it repelled an attack on a military base in the northeast Nigerian town of Damboa. A statement from the Army said that five soldiers and a senior military officer had also been killed.
