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Uganda: Fire Burns Lira School
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New Vision (Kampala)
12 July 2008
Posted to the web 14 July 2008
Bill Oketch
Kampala
A fire has gutted Lira High Nursery and Primary School in Lira District. This brings the number of school fires since April to 35, the Police said on Friday.
The Lira incident happened on Thursday at 9:00pm when a fire swept through a girls' dormitory destroying property worth millions of shillings. Nobody was injured.
"It started from the lower bed and spread throughout the dormitory," said Joyce Akwero, a primary four pupil who alerted her roommates about the incident.
"After realising that there was a problem, we climbed the wall to the boys' dormitory," another survivor, Judith Apio, said.
Akwero said the incident had happened three times, but the school's director, Joseph Balikuddembe Orech, had considered it minor.
"I thought it was not worth reporting to the Police since we were trying to investigate the cause of the fire," Orech said, adding that the incident was satanic.
The two-year-old school has 120 pupils in both the primary and nursery sections. The children said they use lamps during preps and in the dormitories.
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There was no boarding section, but the parents asked the school authorities to allow their children sleep at the school, according to the LC3 chairman Ojwina Division, Emmanuel Opeto.
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