A 50 year old woman and two children were last night reduced to ashes in a fire that caught their home in Kinawa Cell, Kasenge Ward, Kyengera town council, in Wakiso district. Edward Lutaaya Gakirawo, the area chairman identified the deceased as Halima Nankanja 50, Aisha Nambi 13, and three year old boy identified as Ayubu.
Gakirawo said Ayubu was a grandson to Nankanja who also owned some rentals in same the area. The chairman said Nankanja entered her double room house with the children to sleep but fire broke out in the wee hours of the night. Net picture of houses gutted by fire
“They entered their house, locked the doors and slept in their double room house when they were very okay. But we don’t know what cause the fire because it started from inside when they were asleep. Unfortunately the metallic door had been locked from inside and it wasn’t easy to break,” Gakirawo said.
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The neighbours had to create a hole in the wall in order to open the metallic door. By the time locals succeeded in opening the door, Nakanja and Ayubu were already dead while Nambi was still fighting for her life.
“We saw the fire inside and we had to dig through the walls and cut the metallic doors to gain access. We found when the baby was burnt into ashes, Halima was already burnt to death but her body was visible while Aisha had been burnt but was still alive,” Gakirawo said.
Patrick Onyango, the Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson, said police and locals rushed Nambi to Kiruddu hospital where she was later pronounced dead. Onyango also extoled the locals who worked tooth and nail to extinguish the fire even though the occupants were already dead.
“Police was notified and responded with fire trucks. Fire was extinguished by locals before arrival of the fire brigade that was hampered by lack of clear access to the scene. There was total damage to house hold property especially the double room occupied by the deceased,” Onyango said.
Police saved the five other rental rooms that were owned by Nankanja that were also getting burnt. Onyango said the two bodies found retrieved from the fire were taken to Mulago hospital morgue while the body of Nambi who was pronounced dead at Kiruddu hospital was still at the same facility. Locals and police could not tell what caused the fire that claimed the lives of the three people.