Fire guts parking yard at South Sudan-Ugandan border

By Vision Correspondent

A fire has Saturday morning reportedly broken out at a parking yard in Nimule town at border of South Sudan and Uganda.

A police officer at the scene who did not want to be quoted says the fire broke about a few minutes ago, followed by a loud blast and clouds of dark smoke rising in the air.

The officer says traders were seen fleeing from the South Sudan to the Uganda side with their belongings.

By press time, the cause of the fire and the level of damage it had caused had not yet been established.