Taban Chiriga, the Officer in Charge of the Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department Mbarara Central Police Station says some of the suspects have confessed that a director of a new school in Mbarara has been paying them to burn down schools.
Collins Kaganzi, the Rwizi Regional Police Commander, says they are holding Mugume to explain why he locked the dormitories and fled raising suspicion that he couldnt have been behind the act.
The incident occurred on Wednesday night at Kiganda village when a house belonging to Rashid Sserwanga gutted fire. Serwanga and his wife were out celebrating the New Year when the tragedy occurred.
Properties worth millions of shillings were on Sunday night burnt to ashes in a fire incident that gutted hotel Pan Afric in Lira town.
The fire that broke out at around 11:15 pm on Sunday reportedly is believed to have been sparked of by electricity power irregularity at the hotel.
Kenya Airways says it has resumed domestic operations after containing a huge fire that destroyed the Arrivals Section of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). Dr. Titus Naikuni, the Kenya Airways Managing Director, in a press statement late on Wednesday said they will have limited domestic operation with the first flight out of Nairobi to Mombasa departing at 7.00pm.
As the fire outbreaks continue to raze properties and kill people, schools and key public places in Luweero have ignored installing fire extinguishers in their premises. The few that bought fire extinguishers have abandoned servicing making them ineffective in times of a fire outbreak.
Jacinto Oburu, the Amuru District Police Commander says that Opelito was attacked at around 3am in the wee hours of Boxing Day at his home where he operated a video hall.
The Jinja Central division Vice Chairman Simon Kasirye is among the six people who were injured during the Thursday night fire that gutted Mutekanga building on Spire Road in Jinja town.
Over 30 timber rental structures in Banda- Nabuuza Zone, along Jinja Road, have burnt down this morning. The fire started at 9:00am after the morning downpour, when most of the occupants had left for work and spread rapidly.
Sun City entertainment center was gutted by fire on Sunday evening, just as hundreds of football fans gathered to watch a match between Manchester united and Norwich.
Shock has gripped the residents of Kasanje village, Mukungwe Sub County in Masaka District after fire gutted a house and burnt a one and a half year old baby to death.
