Uganda police arrest 15 refugees after four killed in fight during World Cup game


  • World
  • Friday, 22 Jun 2018

KAMPALA (Reuters) - A fight erupted in a refugee camp in Uganda during a World Cup soccer match and four people were killed, police said, adding they have arrested 15 refugees from South Sudan in connection with the bloodshed.

Uganda is host to an estimated 1.4 million refugees, including more than a million from South Sudan where a five-year-old civil has killed tens of thousands and uprooted an estimated quarter of the population of 12 million.

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