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Man with machete kills four children at Uganda nursery

By AAP Newswire

Apr 3, 2026

Media reports say a man pretended to be a parent before killing four children at a Kampala nursery. -AP

A man has killed four children in a machete attack inside a nursery school in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, police say.

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The man gained access to the Gaba Early Childhood Development Program in Kampala by disguising himself as a parent, the Daily Monitor newspaper reported.

He first entered the school offices, where he briefly engaged the administrator in charge, then stepped outside, locked the gate and began attacking the children, the report said.

The attacker "brutally stabbed and killed four juveniles," police said in a statement.

Video footage aired by local broadcaster NTV showed some parents weeping.

Police fired in the air to disperse an angry crowd that gathered near the school, apparently trying to lynch the suspect.

The suspect later was taken into custody, police spokesman Kituuma Rusoke told the Associated Press.

A motive for the attack is unknown, he said.

Such attacks on children are rare in Kampala, a city of about three million people.