Eleven children have lost their lives in a fire outbreak at a school located outside Uganda’s capital, Kampala, a police official said on Tuesday.
Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigire said the overnight incident happened at a school for the blind in the district of Mukono, offering no more details.
Xinhua reports that the cause of the fire is currently unknown but so far 11 deaths as a result of the fire have been confirmed while six are in critical conditions and admitted at Herona Hospital in Kisoga.
School fires have been reported to be common in Ugandan schools with a last school fire incident recorded in January when four children died in a fire outbreak in a school in Kampala.
Also in 2018, at least nine students were killed in a fire outbreak that occurred at a high school in central Uganda.
And before the 2018 incident, another fatal school fire happened in 2008 which killed 19 pupils at Budo Junior School in the Wakiso District in the central region of the country.