By Watera Atai,
NATIONAL
Police has said that the results from the DNA tests conducted on the eleven pupils of Salama School for the Blind who died in the fire will be released out next week.
On Tuesday at around 3am, fire gutted a dormitory housing 27 pupils of primary one, two and three at Salama School for the Blind. Eleven pupils died in the fire and over six sustained injuries.
The Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango says that police took blood samples from parents and relatives of the deceased yesterday results of which will be out within a course of the coming week.
He has called for patience from the bereaved families and the general public as police handle the matter.
“13 parents turned up at the police forensic laboratory at Naguru in Kampala to submit samples,” Onyango said
Reports indicate that here has not been any positive identification of the remains yet but, the process of identification of the deceased’s bodies is underway by police forensic experts.
