Ugandan rebels kill four children at wedding

Ugandan rebels have shot dead four teenagers at a wedding party in the remote north of the country.

Ugandan rebels have shot dead four teenagers at a wedding party in the remote north of the country.

About 15 gunmen from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacked as revellers danced at a bar in Adjumani district in the early hours of Sunday.

"Three children were killed on the spot and a girl later died in hospital," a local official said. About a dozen people were wounded in the attack.

The army said it had killed nine rebels in separate clashes over the past few days, including the leader of the group that carried out the raid.

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The LRA, which has no clear political aims, has terrorised isolated northern communities for 19 years, uprooting more than 1.6 million people and triggering a humanitarian crisis.

Led by self-proclaimed mystic Joseph Kony, the cult-like group is notorious for massacring civilians, mutilating survivors and kidnapping more than 20,000 children who are forced to serve as fighters, porters and sex slaves.

In October, the International Criminal Court unveiled its first arrest warrants for Mr Kony and his LRA deputies.