Mourners eat body at funeral

REBELS fleeing the Ugandan army in southern Sudan forced 60 mourners in a funeral procession to eat the corpse they were carrying before gunning them down, an army spokesman said today.

The Ugandan army has been trying to stamp out a 15-year insurgency led by self-proclaimed prophet Joseph Kony.

"Kony attacked a funeral procession of about 60 people, forced them to cook the corpse and eat it. They were then shot," army spokesman major Shaban Bantariza said.