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Uganda sends extra troops to find the students’ killers.

KAMPALA: On Sunday, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda issued an order for more troops to be sent to western Uganda, where at least 37 secondary school students were killed by attackers from a group with ties to the violent Islamic State (IS) group.

The students were killed late on Friday at Lhubirira Secondary School in Mpondwe, close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Cong, by rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).