Bilal student on school fire

Bilal Islamic Primary and Secondary School in Bwaise are is still inaccessible to Parents and students following the razing school fire yesterday night.

Police presence has been beefed up within and outside the school , blocking anyone from accessing the premises.

A viscous fire gutted S1 and S2 boys dormitory on Sunday night at 8pm reducing property worth millions of shillings to ashes. No student has been reported dead or injured in the outbreak, sources say learners were attending evening preps at that time.

Bilal student on school fire

The exact cause of the fire has not yet been established but police has commenced investigations into the incident

However, a section of students at the school have attributed the fire outbreak to an act of arson. One of the students who preferred anonymity told our reporter Minah Nalule that prior to the incident, two unidentified men walked into the school through the main gate with a fuel substance in a five litter jerry can.

She explains that the suspects walked straight to the boy’s dormitories and set them ablaze before disappearing into thin air.

“Two men came to the school at night carrying a jerry can of fuel, they rushed to the dormitories and poured fuel around, the one with the jerry can first let the school before his colleague lit the place with a match. The security guard cannot differentiate between student teachers, other teachers and people who enter for prayers, “ she narrated

Currently, Parents and other individuals have been blocked from accessing the school.. The closure of the school has left parents stranded at the gate.   

 
Muhammad Bakasambe, a father of seven is one of the parents stuck at the entrance says that information from the school shows that four of his children are safe but he is yet to know about the others.

“We want to see our children, but the school authorities and police cannot allow us access I have seven children, I have been able to confirm that four are okay,I Just hear no child died . All we need to know is the way forward.” Bakasambe says