Uganda: Dorm Fire at School for the Blind Kills 11 Girls

A forensics officer walks past a burned dormitory at the scene of a fire at the Salama School for the Blind in Luga village, Mukono district, Uganda, on Oct. 25, 2022. Hajarah Nalwadda/AP Photo

MUKONO, Uganda—A fire at a boarding school for blind students killed 11 children in a rural community just outside Uganda’s capital, Kampala, the school’s administrator, and police said Tuesday.

“One of our dormitories caught fire and burnt at around midnight. The matron made an alarm,“ Francis Kinubi, the school’s founder, said. ”This was one of the dormitories for the young girls and it caught and burned down and, very unfortunately, 11 girls, small girls, perished.”