Panic as fire reduces school dormitory to ashes

By Faustine Odeke

Parents of victory Border Point primary school, Malaba, were thrown into total panic and confusion following an afternoon fire that gutted the P.7 boys' dormitory.

No one was injured out as all the pupils were in class while all property belonging to 36 candidates was reduced to ashes.

As the information started trickling into the town parents were thrown into total confusion forcing them to abandon all their duties to rush to school to know the fate of their dear children.

The immediate intervention of fire fighters aboard two fire trucks from Malaba and Tororo arrived 10 minutes late.

A ghostly aftermath of the dormitory after pupils' property was reduced to ashes

The Malaba police boss, Julius Jingo, said the fire outbreak was caused by a short circuit from one of the bulbs.

The head teacher, Eunice Among, said the inferno is going to have negative impact on the candidates' performance as most of them have been left with no books for revision and majority of them are traumatized.

The school is one of the leading performers in the primary leaving examinations in Tororo district in the past tens years.