Government orders closure of two badly damage schools.

The government has directed Bukoba authorities to close two secondary schools--Ihungo and Nyakato--temporary after badly damaged by a the earthquake that hit Kagera last Saturday.

A magnitude 5.7 Richter scale quake, hit Bukoba on 10/09/2016 at 1527 hours, and killed at least 16 people and injured over 250,and damaging over 284 buildings including the tw secondary schools,the authorities said.

The reports from the region indicated that apart from the deaths, 170 people still remained at the hospital beds fighting for their lives while 83 others were treated and discharged.

Though the actual cost of damages was yet to be established, initial official reports indicated that about 840 residential houses crumpled while 1,264 developed cracks.

The country, despite running along a geological fault line of the Great Rift Valley, major earthquakes are rare.

A magnitude 6 Richter scale quake struck the Tanzanian town of Arusha in July 2007.