#englishnews #Ugandanews <br /><br />News Article :-<br />Two tourists from the UK and South Africa and their Ugandan guide were killed when assailants attacked their vehicle near a national park in south-west Uganda.<br /><br />Bashir Hangi, spokesperson for the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), said the attackers set fire to the vehicle in which the group were travelling just outside Queen Elizabeth national park.<br /><br />The security agencies were working “to establish who could have carried out this heinous act”, he said on Tuesday.<br /><br />In a statement, the UWA said: “The deceased, whose names are withheld, include a Ugandan, a UK citizen and a South African citizen. They were travelling under Gorilla and Wildlife Safaris, a local tour company.”<br />Fred Enanga, a police spokesperson, said in a statement that extremist rebels usually based in the east of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo had carried out the “cowardly terrorist attack”.<br /><br />He said the security forces “responded immediately upon receiving the information and are aggressively pursuing the suspected ADF rebels”.<br /><br />The ADF, or Allied Democratic Forces, is a shadowy rebel group that originated in Uganda but whose fighters now operate in a lawless part of eastern DRC. The group has established ties with the Islamic State group.<br /><br />Queen Elizabeth national park, located in a remote area near the DRC border, is one of the country’s most popular conservation areas.<br /><br />Such an attack is rare in this east African country. It comes at a time when Ugandan troops are hunting down the ADF deep inside DRC.<br /><br />The ADF occasionally carries out cross-border attacks. In one such attack in June, the group was accused of massacring at least 41 people, most of them students, in a raid on a remote Ugandan community near the border.<br /><br />The ADF has long opposed the rule of Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, a US security ally who has held power in the east African country since 1986.<br /><br />The group was established in the early 1990s by Ugandan Muslims who said they had been sidelined by Museveni’s policies.<br /><br />At the time, the rebels staged deadly attacks in Ugandan villages and Kampala, the capital, including a 1998 attack in which 80 students were massacred in a border town.
