Police in Uganda said four children were killed in a stabbing attack at a nursery school in Kampala, in a rare and deeply shocking incident that left parents weeping and officers trying to calm an angry crowd.
Al Jazeera reported that the attack took place at the Ggaba Early Childhood Development Program school in Makindye Division. Police spokeswoman Rachael Kawala told local media that one girl and three boys were killed by a 34-year-old attacker. The suspect has been apprehended, but the motive remains under investigation.
The report says the man gained access to the school by disguising himself as a parent. Eyewitnesses told local media that he first entered the school offices and spoke briefly with the administrator, then stepped outside, locked the gate and began attacking children one by one with a sharp object. That sequence made the assault especially disturbing because it appears to have relied on deception as well as violence.
The source also says the attacker was stopped by a security guard from a neighborhood church. That intervention appears to have ended the rampage before more children were harmed. Police later fired into the air to disperse an angry crowd that had gathered near the school and appeared to be trying to attack the suspect.
Local broadcaster NTV showed parents crying, according to the report, underscoring the immediate emotional impact on the community. Kampala is a city of roughly three million people, and the source says attacks of this kind are rare there. That rarity helps explain why the incident drew such a strong reaction: it happened in a place associated with childhood safety, not in a conflict zone or on a front line.
The report does not identify the victims by name and does not say whether the school was fully open for the day or how many other children were present when the attack happened. It also does not give any explanation for the suspect’s motive beyond saying that investigators are still working on it.
Even with those limits, the verified facts are grim enough. Four children are dead, the suspect is in custody and the school community is left with a search for answers that may take time to come. The immediate priority for authorities is now likely to be the investigation, while for parents and teachers it is the much harder task of understanding how an ordinary school day turned into a mass stabbing.
The scene described by the source is one of a community that had to absorb the attack almost immediately. Parents were already weeping while police cleared the area, and the report says this kind of assault is rare in Kampala. That combination of rarity and brutality is why the case is likely to remain under close scrutiny as investigators work to establish motive and sequence. That is why the case is likely to stay in the public eye for some time: a school attack of this scale is unusual in Kampala, and the investigation will need to explain both access and motive.
