{"id":59,"date":"2022-10-25T13:28:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/2022\/10\/25\/fire-kills-11-at-uganda-school-for-visually-impaired-children-2\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T13:28:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:28:57","slug":"fire-kills-11-at-uganda-school-for-visually-impaired-children-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/fire-kills-11-at-uganda-school-for-visually-impaired-children-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire kills 11 at Uganda school for visually impaired children"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fire kills 11 at Uganda school for visually impaired children<\/a><\/p>\n
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Eleven children have died after a fire broke out in the early hours of Tuesday at a school for visually impaired children in Uganda.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Four others are in a critical condition and are being treated in hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The cause of the fire at the boarding school in Mukono, east of the capital, Kampala, is being investigated, but such incidents are not uncommon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One of the country’s worst school blazes was at Buddo Junior School in 2008. Nineteen children died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is thought that there were at least 27 children sleeping inside the affected dormitory at the Salama School for the Blind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Distraught parents have gathered at the site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“No words can explain the pain I am going through,” Richard Muhimba, whose child died in the fire, told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr Moses Keeya, who works at the local hospital that first received the injured, said they “sustained mostly injuries on the arms, legs and chest. One of them has a deep burn on the head”.Four children have been referred to Kiruddu National Hospital in Kampala. And two who had minor injuries have been discharged and sent home. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Education Minister Joyce Kaduchu has also been at the school talking to the parents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“All of us are really heartbroken,” she said.”Our education system gives everyone an opportunity, regardless of what physical challenges one has. We have lost 11 children under very unfortunate circumstances.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She added that DNA tests would have to be carried out on the bodies of the children which have been burnt beyond recognition. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the past, school fires have been caused by children using candles in their dormitories after lights out and leaving them burning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rescue efforts have often been hampered by overcrowding and the lack of firefighting equipment at the schools.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A police report in March this year said that there had been at least 18 fire incidents in schools in a period of three months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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