### [2026-04-30](/feed/2026/04/30/index.md)

##### Kampala school stabbing
# Thirty-eight-year-old Christopher Okello Onyum is sentenced to death by hanging for the murders of four children at a nursery school on April 2 in Kampala, Uganda. 




### Sources:

1. [BBC News](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3d2vzmgekjo)

### Changes:

1. 38-year-old Christopher Okello Onyum is sentenced to death by hanging for the murders of four children at a nursery school on April 2 in Kampala, Uganda.  _2026-05-01 07:08:13 (First version)_
1. Thirty-eight-year-old Christopher Okello Onyum is sentenced to death by hanging for the murders of four children at a nursery school on April 2 in Kampala, Uganda.  _(Current version)_

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