Uganda, Oct. 8 -- Property worth millions of shillings has been destroyed in a fire that burnt shops in Sembabule District Thursday.
The fire whose cause is yet to be confirmed destroyed a building that houses three shops dealing in essential commodities such as sugar, cooking oil rice and mattresses, among others.
Locals claimed the fire was caused by a short circuit in one of the shops before spreading to other parts of the building.
"We were at our boda boda stage when we heard an alarm made by one of the people at the burnt building them put out the fire but we could not do much since the fire was too much" he added.
"We tried to help but we were overwhelmed by the fire," said one of the first responders when the fire started.
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