<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Eleven children were killed on Tuesday in a school fire in the central Ugandan district of Mukono, police said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A police statement said that the tragic incident occurred at Salama School of the Blind at about 1:00am local time.</div><div><br></div><div>‘The cause of the fire is currently unknown but so far 11 deaths as a result of the fire have been confirmed while six are in critical conditions and admitted at Herona Hospital in Kisoga,’ the statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>School fires are common in Ugandan schools. The last fire was in January when four children died in a fire outbreak in a school in Kampala, Uganda’s capital. In 2018, at least nine students were killed in a fire that broke out at a high school in central Uganda.</div><div><br></div><div>Before the 2018 incident, another fatal school fire happened in 2008, killing 19 pupils at Budo Junior School in the Wakiso district in the central region. - Xinghua</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>