Rebels in northern Uganda raided a village in the district of Gulu early on Thursday and hacked 14 people to death, a military representative said.
Lieutenant Paddy Ankunda said by phone from the northern town of Gulu that the rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) raided Pangeya village in Kolo sub-county before dawn and used pangas and axes to kill 13 people.
Another person died of injuries in hospital, he added.
No further details were immediately available.
The LRA was formed in 1998 as an offshoot of another rebel group, the now defunct Holy Spirit Movement, which took up arms two years earlier.
The rebels’ main method of recruitment is abduction.
The group is estimated to have kidnapped at least 10 000 children and young people in the last six years and forced them to join the LRA.
The group intensified its violent campaign, largely against civilians, in northern Uganda in May after a lull of almost two years.
The escalation followed the signing in March of a protocol between Uganda and Sudan under which Kampala is allowed to send troops in government-controlled areas of southern Sudan to fight the LRA, which is said to have rear bases there. – Sapa-AFP