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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 October 25, 2022. [AP Photo]

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.

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