At least 17 pupils have been killed after a fire torched Hillside Endarasha Academy, a boarding primary school in Kenya.
At least 17 pupils have been killed after a fire torched Hillside Endarasha Academy, a boarding primary school in Kenya’sThere are fears that the death toll could rise as over a dozen others have been taken to hospital with severe burns.national police service, said the bodies were “burnt beyond recognition”.Onyango added that the cause of the fire is unknown, but that the service “will update the public when we know more”.
More than 150 pupils were said to be in the dormitory when it caught fire at around midnight local time, police added.AdvertisementPresident William Ruto called the fire “horrific” and “devastating”, and ordered an investigation.“The Government under the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of the National Government is mobilising all the necessary resources to support the affected families.
There have been a series of school fires in Kenya in recent years, with many of them turning out to be arson. In September 2017, nine students were killed in a fire at a school in Nairobi that the government attributed to arson. In 2001, 58 schoolboys were killed in a dormitory fire at Kyanguli Secondary School outside Nairobi. In 2012, eight students were killed at a school in Homa Bay County in western Kenya.
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