Several documents were on Saturday morning destroyed when a fire that gutted Hoima chief magistrates court in Hoima city.

Located along Government Road in Kijungu near the Albertine police regional headquarters, Hoima magistrates court is also currently housing the Hoima high court which was commissioned last year.

By press time police detectives had sealed off the premises and nobody was allowed to access the premises apart from the investigators.

The fire targeted the high court section and several documents were reduced to ashes in the fire which started at about 6 am, a source close to the investigators has revealed.

James Eremye, the judiciary spokesperson confirmed the incident and said that police had launched investigations into the incident.

“I have received information from the chief magistrate about the fire outbreak that occurred in one of the rooms at court and we haven’t established what caused the fire but police are investigating.

A boda boda operator (names withheld) who was one of the first person to raise the alarm told journalists that he was riding to Hoima regional referral hospital, He noticed a huge cloud of smoke coming from their court, and rushed to check what was happening only to find fire spreading rapidly