Fire outbreak causes closure of school

Students of the Saint Francis Girls Secondary School at Jirapa in the Upper West Region were on Sunday temporarily sent home following a fire outbreak at two of the school's dormitories on Saturday night.

It took the combined efforts of both the students and personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service several hours to bring the situation under control. Mr. Ernest A. Aklamah, the Regional Fire Officer, who confirmed this said at Wa, that the cause of the fire was being investigated.

Mr. Aklamah intimated that the school's authorities decided to send the students home for a brief period, apparently to recover from any possible trauma they might have experienced.