46 Lra Killed

New Vision (Kampala)
NEWS
December 31, 2003
Posted to the web December 31, 2003

By Dennis Ojwee
Kampala
THE UPDF has killed 46 Lord's Resistance army (LRA) rebels and rescued 374
captives in northern Uganda this month.
In an end-of-month security report released by the Gulu-based northern UPDF
spokesman, Lt. Paddy Ankunda, yesterd the report said 11 rebels were captured
and seven surrendered.
Ankunda said they recovered 28 sub-machine guns and 719 bullets from the
rebels. He said only one UPDF soldier was killed and another one injured.
The Lira-based UPDF fifth Division spokesman, Lt. Chris Magezi, said the
division rescued 318 captives in December.
Magezi said they killed 40 rebels and eight surrendered in the same period.
The rebels have bases in Sudan.

   

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