Students count losses as fire guts Masaka SS girls’ dormitory

By Malik Fahad Police in Masaka City are investigating circumstances under which a girls’ dormitory at Masaka Secondary School went up in flames on Tuesday morning and students’ property worth millions destroyed. The 8am fire whose cause is still a mystery started when students were sleeping. The devastating fire destroyed everything inside the dormitory including; mattresses, shoes, suitcases, clothes, and books. “We first heard a big sound and in a few minutes fire started and quickly spread to the rest of the dormitory fueled by the highly flammable mattresses,” a female student only identified as Sumayyiyah told this reporter. The gutted two-storeyed dormitory accommodated 47 Senior Five and Six students. Reports indicate that the ground floor of the dormitory wasn’t […]