Uganda school attack: 'Gospel songs interrupted by screaming'

Mary Masika, who lives opposite the school says she would often hear the students singing before bedtimePupils in Uganda were singing gospel songs before a deadly attack by Islamist militants on Friday, a woman who lives opposite the school says.

The students usually sing before bedtime - and at first she and her daughter thought the noise that interrupted their songs at around 22:00 suggested that they were having a bit of fun. One family in Mpondwe held the funerals on Sunday for a father and son killed in the attack - 47-year-old security guard Elphanas Mbusa and 17-year-old Masereka Elton.Hurubana Kimadi Onesmus lost his son, a school watchman, and at least one of his grandsons - it is not clear if the other has been kidnapped

Now there is a lot of security at the school - and the BBC team was given only a few minutes to take some photos of the burnt buildings.Lots of dried blood is still on the ground outside the girls' dormitory - they had been attacked by machetes and others shot dead as they ran away. Ms Masika said towards the end of the attack, at around 23:30, she heard one of the assailants talking at her gate and asking a fellow fighter if "the job was done".

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