Suspected cult members attacked a village in Uganda, killing at least eight people, including a child as young as three and members of the assailants families, authorities said on Wednesday.
The assault occurred on Tuesday night in Mizizi A, a hamlet in Kagadi district in Ugandas west, about 250 km from the capital Kampala. Eight others were injured, police said.
Preliminary information indicates that members of a new cult whose name is yet to be established descended on people, most of whom are their family members, and cut them, the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces said.
Security forces including from the military and police were on the ground hunting for the culprits as investigations are ongoing to establish more details about the cult, it said.
Four of those killed were aged under 13, including a three-year-old child, police said.
