A dormitory of the St Charles Minor Seminary Senior High School in Tamale went up in flames Monday afternoon destroying students’ personal belongings, a development that is likely to render the students homeless.
The fire, which started at 12:29pm at the Cardinal Dery dormitory, completely burned eight of the nine rooms at a time that students were in class.
It took the intervention of personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service to control the fire and prevent it from burning the last room in the dormitory.
A similar fire outbreak at the school in March 2017 destroyed the school’s two-storey dormitory block, leaving the school with only two rooms as dormitories for the entire student population.
The situation forced authorities to convert some classroom blocks into dormitories as a temporary measure to house the about 500 student population as at November 2018.
At the school’s 65th anniversary celebration in November
last year, the Headmaster of the school, Mr Polycarp KuusokubBeyelle, expressed
concern about inadequate accommodation facilities for students; something he
said affected the school’s intake last academic year.
The destruction of another dormitory in Monday’s fire outbreak is likely to
exacerbate the already dire accommodation situation in the school.
The cause of the fire is not immediately known.
