Uganda: Children amongst 11 eliminated in fire at school for the blind

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    epa10264731 Police forensic experts investigate the scene of a fire at Salama School for the Blind in Mukono District, Uganda, 25 October 2022. Police say at least eleven people died including students after a fire broke out in the middle of the night. Six others were taken to hospital in critical condition. EPA/ISAAC KASAMANI

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    The fire ripped through a school structure eliminating kids (Picture: EPA)

    Eleven individuals consisting of kids have actually been eliminated after a fire ripped through a boarding school in Uganda.

    Police authorities stated the blaze broke out over night in the district of Mukono, a rural neighborhood simply outside the capital, Kampala.

    Six other individuals were hurried to medical facility in a crucial condition, however the reason for the fire at the Salama School for the Blind is not yet understood.

    Top Mukono authorities, Fatuma Ndisaba, informed regional media the victims consisted of kids aged in between 7 and 10.

    With the assistance of households, the victims will be recognized through DNA examinations, she included.

    Fires at schools are a reason for issue in the East African nation where class and dorm rooms are frequently crowded.

    epa10264729 Police forensic experts investigate the scene of a fire at Salama School for the Blind in Mukono District, Uganda, 25 October 2022. Police say at least eleven people died including students after a fire broke out in the middle of the night. Six others were taken to hospital in critical condition. EPA/ISAAC KASAMANI

    Police forensic professionals are now examining the reason for the fire (Picture: EPA)

    A blind woman walks with a cane in front of the burnt dormitory at Salama school for the blind in Luga, Uganda, on October 25, 2022. - Eleven people, mostly children, have perished in a blaze that tore through a dormitory at a school for the blind in Uganda in the early hours of Tuesday as pupils were sleeping. (Photo by BADRU KATUMBA / AFP) (Photo by BADRU KATUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Six individuals are defending their lives in medical facility (Picture: AFP)

    There is normally no firefighting devices readily available, and bad electrical connections are frequently blamed.

    Two dorm rooms at a different school in Kampala were ruined in fires in 2020, however nobody was injured.

    In 2008, 19 primary school trainees were eliminated in a fire at another boarding school.

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