Endarasha Academy Survivor Reveals How Fire That Claimed 21 Started

Endarasha Academy Survivor Reveals How Fire That Claimed 21 Started

Endarasha Academy Survivor Reveals account of events, during the night that saw 21 pupils, die in an inferno that broke out in one of the dormitories.

According to the mother of one of the survivors who spoke to Citizen TV, her son described being jolted awake when another pupil sleeping on the top bunk of a double-decker bed near the entrance saw sparks fly from the light bulb above him.

“He explained that one of the children was startled awake when the bulb exploded, sending sparks onto his mattress, which then caught fire,” she recounted

The pupil immediately jumped down in search of water to put out the flames but found none within reach. In split seconds, The fire started spreading rapidly across the bed.

“He said they tried to put out the fire, but it was spreading so fast they couldn’t control it. They had no choice but to wake up more children and alert the matron,” the mother shared

The fire started near the main entrance of the dormitory, in a section where 48 students were sleeping in 24 double-decker beds, 12 beds lined up on the right side and 12 on the left.

Each child had a sleeping space, but the proximity of the wooden beds and cardboard partitions that separated different areas only fueled the rapid spread of the flames.

The dormitory’s structural materials, including wood and cardboard, fueled the fire,
creating a near-impossible situation for those trying to escape.

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