By OBAKENG MAJE
The failure of the solar system is suspected to be the cause of a fire that erupted at the reception of Batlhaping High School on Monday morning. According to an eyewitness, who refused to be named for fear of reprisal, the fire gutted some important documents at the reception.
“We just saw a cloud of toxic smoke coming out of the reception. So, we suspect that a short circuit at the server room might have triggered the blaze. Only documents were gutted by fire as we managed to extinguish it,”
Meanwhile, the North West Department of Education spokesperson, Elias Malindi said: “The issue of fire at Batlhaping comes from the strong room. We suspect that this fire was caused by failure of a solar system during load-shedding.
“The fire broke out from the AA office and no one was injured. Only files that were in the strong room got damaged.”
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