Uganda Ggaba school attack: Four children stabbed to death in Kampala
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“Four toddlers stabbed to death at Ugandan nursery school”
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“Four children - aged about two and three years old - have been 'brutally stabbed and killed' at a nursery school in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, police said.”
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“The three boys and a girl were killed instantly, said a police spokesperson, who added that the suspect had used more than one knife during the morning attack.”
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“Angry parents had tried to lynch him before he was detained, news agency AFP quotes police spokesperson Racheal Kawala as saying.”
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“Videos of the aftermath being shared on social media show images of crowds of angry and distressed people, some believed to be parents seeking news of their children.”
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“Kawala said the suspect had recently visited the Ggaba Early Childhood Development Program School to enquire about enrolling a child and was told to return on Thursday.”
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— Lake Victoria supports Africa's largest inland fishery, with the majority of the catch being the invasive Nile perch, introduced in the Lake in the 1950s.
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— On 2 April 2026, a mass stabbing took place at the Ggaba Early Childhood Development Program School in Ggaba, Kampala, Uganda, killing four children. The motive for the attack is under investigation.
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— Nexus International University (NIU), formerly Virtual University of Uganda (VUU) is a private university in Uganda. The institution is accredited and supervised by the Uganda National Council for Hig…
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“He paid for admission [and] after that proceeded and attacked these children, killing four of them instantly,”
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