Four children killed in school stabbing attack in Uganda 

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.

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 suspect has been apprehended, and the motive behind the killings is still under investigation,” added the police post on X.

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

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