Summary: Ugandan army launch operation to 'finish' terrorist group behind tourist killings

What we know

• A Ugandan tour guide and two foreign tourists, a South African and British couple, were killed by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group on October 17 in a Ugandan national park close to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border
• The Islamic State, the parent group of the ADF, claimed responsibility for the murders on their Telegram channel days after the trio were killed
• The Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) on October 18 released a press statement to announce the deployment of resources in pursuit of the perpetrators
• The Ugandan army on November 1 said it carried out an operation that resulted in the deaths of ADF rebels responsible for the murders and the capture of their commander

What they said

Ugandan Major General Dick Prit Olum in a video statement said that the military in an operation carried out in the night, killed the ADF rebels and captured their commander known as Njovu. A spokesman for the Uganda Army Deo Akiiki also said, "ADF terrorists whom we have been tracking down since the attack on tourists were finally got and a number of them were killed last night on Lake Edward. The operation is still on to finish all the splinter groups of ADF."