Police detains 2 students over false ADF attack alarm

Police said the two students have since admitted to having written the letter, and not the rebels.

The incident comes against the backdrop of an on-going Police investigation of a threatening letter allegedly written by the ADF rebels saying schools, tea factories, and a trading centre in areas of the Busoro sub-county in Kabarole District would be attacked by the militia.

The ADF recently attacked Lhubiriha secondary school in the Mpondwe Kasese district and killed 42 people, including 37 kids.

The perpetrators, according to the authorities, used machetes to attack the girls and set fire to the boys' dormitories. 17 male students' charred bodies were found. Six people managed to live with injuries and are currently receiving care at various hospitals across the nation. Only 23 bodies have been given to families for burial, despite the fact that 25 have been inspected and identified so far.

The ADF has attacked Uganda before.

About 25 years ago, 58 students were killed when the ADF assaulted the Kabarole district's Kichwamba National Technical Institute in June 1998. Students had barricaded themselves in a dormitory at that time to prevent being kidnapped, and the rebels replied by torching the building. Approximately 100 students were kidnapped.

The ADF is active in the Rwenzururu mountains of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Jamil Mukulu, the group's founder, has been detained since 2015.

Since 1996, the organisation has been opposing the Ugandan Government.