Kampala  - Rescue work continued Saturday around the three- storeyed office block that collapsed killing two people and injuring dozens a day earlier in the centre of the Ugandan capital Kampala.

Police revised the number of dead down from an earlier reported three people. At least 20 people - some in serious condition - were admitted to Kampala's hospitals after being pulled from the rubble.

Kampala  -The Ugandan army on Monday killed 16 rebels and rescued 19 people abducted by rebels as part of operations in north- eastern Democratic Repubic of Congo, reported a Ugandan government newspaper Wednesday.

The fighting took place in Congo's Garamba national park as part of ongoing operations against the Lord's Resistance Army. The rebels, who have waged a civil war in Uganda for more than 20 years, fled to the DRC in late 2004.

Kampala - The Ugandan army said Tuesday it is close to defeating the rebels in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and stopped them from massacring civilians there since the start of its offensive in December.

UN and humanitarian agencies say that Uganda's Lords Resistance Army (LRA) guerrillas massacred up to 1,000 people in the north- eastern region of the DR Congo several weeks after the joint operation against them by Ugandan, Congolese and Sudanese forces began mid-December 2008.

Kampala  - Recovery operations were still going on into the afternoon Monday after a Russian-built plane crashed into Lake Victoria earlier in the day, with up to 11 persons feared dead, officials said.

"As we talk now, the rescue team has not fished out the bodies and the plane wreckage," Information Minister Kabakumba Matsiko said. "The mission is still going on."

Kampala  - Eleven people died Monday when a Russian-made cargo plane carrying supplies for the African Union (AU) peace keeping mission in Somalia, burst into flames and clashed into Lake Victoria soon after take-off from Uganda's Entebbe international airport, a government statement said.