Kufre George
Eleven people, mostly children, have perished in a blaze that tore through a dormitory at a school for the blind in Uganda yesterday as pupils were sleeping.The disaster occurred at the Salama School for the Blind in the Mukono district, east of the capital Kampala.Police said an investigation had been launched into the cause of the inferno and more details would be released later.He said the school has been cordoned off as a crime scene and vowed that there would be a full investigation.The school’s headmaster Francis Kirube, who is also blind, told newsmen that the flames swept through the dormitory as the pupils slept.Images broadcast on Ugandan television showed a charred but still largely intact building where the fire broke out, its window frames and door blackened and the corrugated roof damaged.Forensic teams were seen in white protective wear at the school while grieving parents gathered nearby.
