Eleven young boys died and another 20 endured serious consumes in a fire that gutted their residences in Uganda while they rested, police said Monday.
Henry Nsubuga, director of the school in Rakai in southern Uganda, said he speculated a few understudies who had been ousted as of late were behind the "appalling demonstration".
The fire tore through the St Bernard Secondary School in Rakai on Sunday night.
"The fire playing criminals originally bolted the entryways of the residences previously setting them ablaze notwithstanding when the safeguard came it was hard to clear the understudies inside the quarters, some would have been spared yet ceased to exist of suffocation," Nsubuga said.
"A few bodies were scorched to the point of being indistinguishable and police have prescribed a DNA test to build up their personalities and parentage " he included.
Region police boss Ben Nuwamanya revealed to AFP that 11 understudies have been affirmed dead.
"Around 20 understudies have been conceded with serious consumes and are in basic condition yet specialists say some will balance out," he included.
Nuwamanya said the reason for the fire still couldn't seem to be built up, and that three individuals, including a monitor at the school, had been captured for addressing.
The Rakai locale lies around 280 kilometres (170 miles) south of the capital Kampala, close to the outskirt with Tanzania.
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