School Fire Outbreak Kills 11 Children

No fewer than 11 children were confirmed on Tuesday by the police to have died in a school fire outbreak in the Central Ugandan District of Mukono.

Xinhua reports that a police statement issued in Kampala, Uganda capital stated that the tragic incident occurred at Salama School of the Blind at about 1 a.m. local time.

“The cause of the fire is currently unknown but so far 11 deaths as a result of the fire have been confirmed while six are in critical conditions and admitted at Herona Hospital in Kisoga,” the police said.

School fires have been reported to be common in Ugandan schools with a last school fire incident recorded in January when four children died in a fire outbreak in a school in Kampala.

Also in 2018, at least nine students were killed in a fire outbreak that occurred at a high school in central Uganda.

And before the 2018 incident, another fatal school fire happened in 2008 which killed 19 pupils at Budo Junior School in the Wakiso District in the central region of the country.