{"id":49507,"date":"2023-05-18T22:09:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T22:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=49507"},"modified":"2023-05-18T22:02:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T22:02:22","slug":"teacher-shot-dead-two-injured-in-moroto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/teacher-shot-dead-two-injured-in-moroto","title":{"rendered":"Teacher shot dead, two injured in Moroto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Suspected armed warriors last night raided Atedeoi primary school, Lotisan Sub County in Moroto District and killed a female teacher, leaving her husband and child injured and fighting for their lives in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Julius Okello, one of the teachers at the school in the restive Karamoja sub region in northeastern Uganda, told this publication that the attack happened at 10pm when close to 10 armed warriors in number overpowered the security guard armed with a bow and arrow.<\/p>\n<p>He said the suspected warriors first attacked the classroom block where primary seven pupils were sleeping before advancing to the teachers\u2019 block where they shot and killed Joy Chebet , a support teacher who has been volunteering at the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a scuffle that followed, Chebet\u2019s husband, Peter Chepskor was shot in the shuttered testicles. He\u2019s currently admitted at Moroto regional referral hospital alongside his child,\u201d Mr Okello said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okello said this is not the first time Atedeoi primary school is being attacked.<\/p>\n<p>He said during the Covid lockdown, some warriors turned one classroom into their hiding sanctuary but they were later apprehended by security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have actually been told to temporarily leave the school for a safer place until the situation calms down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Rose Ayuru, another said here colleague bled for over an hour before she died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad the district authorities intervened early after being alerted, maybe her life would have been saved,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Paul Oputa, the District Education Officer, Moroto said they will close the school, to enable the teachers recover from the trauma caused by last night&#8217;s incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are relocating the teachers to a safer place in Moroto town to have them recover from the trauma they went through when the warriors attacked,\u201d the DEO said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Michael Longole, the spokesperson for Mount Moroto region police said some suspects had been arrested as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation is calm, and the police and sister security forces are investigating the incident,\u201d Mr Longole said.<\/p>\n<p>Atedeoi primary school in Lotisan Sub County in the mineral-rich region has 1,038 pupils with nine government teachers, two support teachers and eight others facilitated by the save the children international.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Suspected armed warriors last night raided Atedeoi primary school, Lotisan Sub County in Moroto District and killed a female teacher, leaving her husband and child injured and fighting for their lives in hospital. Mr Julius Okello, one of the teachers at the school in the restive Karamoja sub region in northeastern Uganda, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":49506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,1574,240,543,234],"class_list":["post-49507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-nigeria","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Teacher shot dead, two injured in Moroto - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Suspected armed warriors last night raided Atedeoi primary school, Lotisan Sub County in Moroto District and killed a fe ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/teacher-shot-dead-two-injured-in-moroto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teacher shot dead, two injured in Moroto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Suspected armed warriors last night raided Atedeoi primary school, Lotisan Sub County in Moroto District and killed a fe ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/teacher-shot-dead-two-injured-in-moroto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-18T22:09:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684434379.63.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/teacher-shot-dead-two-injured-in-moroto#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/teacher-shot-dead-two-injured-in-moroto\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Teacher shot dead, two injured in Moroto\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-18T22:09:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/teacher-shot-dead-two-injured-in-moroto\"},\"wordCount\":382,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/teacher-shot-dead-two-injured-in-moroto#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684434379.63.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"Nigeria\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/teacher-shot-dead-two-injured-in-moroto#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/teacher-shot-dead-two-injured-in-moroto\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/teacher-shot-dead-two-injured-in-moroto\",\"name\":\"Teacher shot dead, two injured in Moroto - 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