Rainbow Hotel, the venue of the prebudget seminar reportedly catches fire, three people rushed to hospital

Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo reportedly caught fire resulting in three people getting injured.

The fire is said to have started at the basement of the facility after an electrical fault.

Commotion engulfed the hotel as guests stumbled on each other to exit the building.

The extent of damages were not immediately ascertained.
By Alice Dube. Bulawayo24

ZiFM journalist Moses Matenga twitter saying “Byo Rainbow, venue of the prebudget seminar, said to have caught fire, 3 ppl injured”.

Zenzele Ndebele added “Looks like there is a fire the basement of the Rainbow hotel

He added “A friend tells me , 2 contractors who were working at the basement have been taken to hospital. Not yet clear what started the fire”.

Scores of parliamentarians are booked at the hotel for the 2017 Parliamentary pre-budget seminar.

The three-day event run under the theme “Enhancing transformative economic development through domestic resource mobilisation and utilisation”. By Alice Dube Source – Byo24News

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