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Latest rebel attack claims eight lives

    NAIROBI
    Meanwhile, eight people were killed and six injured when the ADF attacked a Ugandan army detachment at Bungwa, 4 km outside Bundibugyo, early on Monday morning, news organisations reported. A defence ministry official had confirmed the attack but had no casualty details, the Associated Press agency reported. Among the dead and injured were guards of a nearby camp for internally-displaced people (IDPs), from which hundreds of people fled to the centre of Bundibugyo town after the attacks, the 'New Vision' stated. An army official who declined to be named claimed the UPDF had killed more than 100 rebels in the last 10 days, while media reports have estimated the number of mostly civilian victims of rebel attacks at 32, AP added.

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