Students at the St Charles  Boys Senior High School in Tamale have been asked to go home for two weeks after classes of the school building was burnt down to ashes by a fire outbreak.

The inferno began on Friday March 22 2019 after a a building which used to be a dining hall and converted to a dormitory was burnt leaving over 70 students stranded.

Another outbreak occurred on Monday reducing the Cardinal Dery dormitory which housed some 100 students to ashes.

The mini seminary institution has been closed down for two weeks for authorities to erect temporal buildings to accommodate the affected students, a senior officer of the regional education service said.

The regional education director, Mohammed Haroun Cambodia is expected to arrive in the school with other officials to officially announce the closure and vacate the students to go home for two weeks.

The fire outbreaks in the school has become a more frequent issue leaving school buildings and students belongings to ashes mostly affects the dormitories.

The enrollment capacity has continued to weaken due to lack of accommodation after a 23 room complex dormitory structure housing 504 learners was destroyed by fire in 2017. The damage forced education authorities to send the students home for weeks.

The school was able to admit only 150 students out over 700 that was posted later that year after the storey building was left in ruins.

That dormitory is yet to be renovated after multiple visits by authorities from the presidency and government.

Monday’s incident, which had brought the school to its knees, caused pandemonium and a near stampede after frightened students tried to flee from their classrooms through the classroom windows when they saw smokes coming out from the burning dormitory.

The headmaster of the school, Mr. Polycarp Kuusokub, had told Starr News he was waiting for a decision from his “superiors” on whether to send the students home and shut down the school.

The master explained that, he heard noise by students and came out to see the Cardinal Dery House on fire.

He said seven rooms had been affected so far and that fire fighters were still struggling to bring the situation under control.

Mr. Polycarp said Regional Minister, Salifu, and the Education Service authorities have visited the burning infrastructures.