LRA abducts 20 in northern village

NAIROBI

Rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) killed a school teacher and abducted 20 people on Saturday when they attacked two villages near the northern town of Gulu, according to news agencies. Media reports quoted an army spokesman as saying an unspecified number of rebels were subsequently killed by government soldiers during a pursuit.

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