From WBUR

At least 17 people were killed in Uganda in an attack by armed gunmen on three police stations in an area of the country that had once been the focus of an Islamic insurgency.

Meanwhile, the al-Qaida-linked group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for attacking on two coastal villages in Kenya that left at least 22 people dead. NPR’s Gregory Warner, reporting from Nairobi, says the deaths in Kenya include one Russian tourist.

In Uganda, Paddy Ankunda, spokesman for the Uganda People’s Defence forces, was quoted by Reuters as saying that 41 of the attackers were killed and another 12 were captured during the attacks Saturday evening.

Reuters reports: “The gunmen, from a local militia, had no connection to the Islamist rebel group ADF-NALU, which preyed on the local population in the late 1990s and early 2000s before it was defeated and forced to flee into the jungles of neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.”

The Associated Press quotes Fred Enanga, the Ugandan police spokesman, in a statement early Sunday as saying that apparently coordinated attacks were carried about by “thugs” armed with guns, spears and machetes.

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