Fire guts Kimaanya SS in Masaka
PROPERTY worth millions of shillings was on Wednesday night destroyed by a fire that gutted a girls’ dormitory in Blessed Sacrament Kimaanya Secondary School in Masaka municipality.
By ALI MAMBULE
PROPERTY worth millions of shillings was on Wednesday night destroyed by a fire that gutted a girls’ dormitory in Blessed Sacrament Kimaanya Secondary School in Masaka municipality.
The southern regional Police spokesperson, Noah Serunjogi, told New Vision that the fire broke out at around 9:00pm when the students had gone for preps.
He suspected the fire to have been caused by an electric short circuit.
Serunjogi said Masaka town was experiencing a problem of unstable electricity.
The students tried in vain to save their property.
The Police intervened when some of the people who turned up to help in fighting the fire resorted to stealing the students’ property.
The property had been whisked to the lower section of the building.
Efforts by the Police to block the fire from catching the whole dormitory were futile.
“We tried to bring in the teargas truck to help in ferrying the water to the scene but little could be done,†Serunjogi said.
He rubbished allegations that the Police took teargas instead of water to stop the fire.
“The truck was used to take water to the scene. There was no way we could take teargas to the school because it was not applicable,†he said.
The newly constructed two-storied building accommodated over 800 students but the upper section which caught fire was housing only 350 students, according to the deputy headmaster, Dick Richard Lukyamuzi.
“No death or injury has been registered in this inferno. All our students are safe apart from their property which was destroyed,†Lukyamuzi said.
He, however, said the ground section of the building remained intact and no property was burnt.
Lukyamuzi said the school management committee would meet to decide what to do.
The incident came at a time when the students were sitting for their end-of-term examinations.
PROPERTY worth millions of shillings was on Wednesday night destroyed by a fire that gutted a girls’ dormitory in Blessed Sacrament Kimaanya Secondary School in Masaka municipality.
The southern regional Police spokesperson, Noah Serunjogi, told New Vision that the fire broke out at around 9:00pm when the students had gone for preps.
He suspected the fire to have been caused by an electric short circuit.
Serunjogi said Masaka town was experiencing a problem of unstable electricity.
The students tried in vain to save their property.
The Police intervened when some of the people who turned up to help in fighting the fire resorted to stealing the students’ property.
The property had been whisked to the lower section of the building.
Efforts by the Police to block the fire from catching the whole dormitory were futile.
“We tried to bring in the teargas truck to help in ferrying the water to the scene but little could be done,†Serunjogi said.
He rubbished allegations that the Police took teargas instead of water to stop the fire.
“The truck was used to take water to the scene. There was no way we could take teargas to the school because it was not applicable,†he said.
The newly constructed two-storied building accommodated over 800 students but the upper section which caught fire was housing only 350 students, according to the deputy headmaster, Dick Richard Lukyamuzi.
“No death or injury has been registered in this inferno. All our students are safe apart from their property which was destroyed,†Lukyamuzi said.
He, however, said the ground section of the building remained intact and no property was burnt.
Lukyamuzi said the school management committee would meet to decide what to do.
The incident came at a time when the students were sitting for their end-of-term examinations.