Four children killed in nursery school stabbing attack in Uganda

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Police said a suspect is in custody but the motive remains unknown after attack in Ugandan capital, Kampala.

A man has killed four children in a stabbing attack inside a nursery school in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, police said.

“We confirm a tragic incident at the Ggaba Early Childhood Development Program school, in Makindye Division Kampala City where a male suspect brutally stabbed and killed four juveniles,” the Ugandan Police Force said in a post on X.

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The man gained access to the school on Thursday and attacked an “unspecified number of children with a sharp object”, according to the local Daily Monitor newspaper.

“Eyewitnesses say the suspect disguised himself as a parent and first entered the school offices, where he briefly engaged the administrator in charge,” the paper reported.

“He later stepped outside, locked the gate, and began attacking the children one after another.”

Police spokesman Kituuma Rusoke said at least four children were killed in the attack.

The alleged attacker was stopped by a security guard from a neighbourhood church, Daily Monitor reported, describing the area as an “upmarket suburb of Kampala”.

“The suspect has been apprehended,” the police post on X confirmed. But it added that “the motive behind the killings is still under investigation.”

Video footage aired by local broadcaster NTV showed some parents weeping. Police also fired into the air to disperse an angry crowd that had gathered near the school, apparently trying to lynch the suspect.

This kind of attack is rare in Kampala, a city of roughly three million people.

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