A fireplace at a main boarding college in central Kenya has killed 17 college students, a police spokesperson stated.
President William Ruto stated he had requested authorities to research and maintain these accountable to account.
Extra rescuers had been on their solution to the Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri, the spokesperson, Resila Onyango, stated in a broadcast on Kenya’s Sizzling 96 FM radio, and authorities would offer particulars later.
“We now have misplaced 17 pupils within the hearth incident whereas 14 are injured,” Onyango informed Reuters by phone. “Our group is on the scene in the intervening time.“
The hearth had burned the scholars past recognition, Citizen Tv stated earlier.
“I instruct related authorities to totally examine this horrific incident. These accountable will probably be held to account,” Ruto posted on X.
Authorities have cordoned off the college, Kenya Purple Cross stated.
There have been a collection of faculty fires in Kenya in recent times, a lot of which have turned out to be arson. 9 college students had been killed in September 2017 in a fireplace at a faculty within the capital, Nairobi, which the federal government attributed to arson.
In 2001, 58 schoolboys had been killed in a dormitory hearth at Kyanguli secondary college outdoors Nairobi. In 2012, eight college students had been killed at a faculty in Homa Bay County in western Kenya.
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