This archive report was first published on 9 January 2020.
On January 8, 2020, a devastating building collapse occurred in the Kansanga suburb of Kampala, the Ugandan capital, claiming the lives of six workers and leaving three others injured.
According to Patrick Onyango, Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, the bodies of the deceased workers were retrieved from the debris, and the injured were taken to hospital for treatment.
A committee has been established to investigate the cause of the collapse, as stated by Onyango.
Tragically, this incident is not an isolated one in Kampala. In May 2019, a residential fence wall collapse resulted in the deaths of five people, including four children, following heavy rains in the city.
Just a month later, six street children lost their lives, and two others were seriously injured, after a school perimeter wall collapsed in the capital.
