A minimum of 17 college students have been killed after a fireplace in a college dormitory in Kenya.
The variety of lifeless could rise, police mentioned, including that not less than 13 college students have been critically burned.
The reason for the hearth Thursday evening at Hillside Endarasha Main in Nyeri county was being investigated, a police spokesperson mentioned.
In a publish on X, President William Ruto known as on authorities “to completely examine this horrific incident” and maintain these accountable to account.
The college has been cordoned off, Kenya Crimson Cross mentioned on X, including it was offering “psychosocial help companies” to these affected by “the tragic fireplace incident”.
The hearth had burnt the scholars past recognition, Citizen Tv mentioned earlier.
AFP quoted police as saying the hearth began at round midnight, with flames engulfing the dormitory as pupils slept.
Faculty fires are frequent in Kenyan boarding colleges, the place many college students keep as a result of mother and father consider it offers them extra time to check with out lengthy commutes.
Some fires have been began by college students throughout protests over the workload or dwelling circumstances. In 2017, 10 highschool college students died in a college fireplace within the capital, Nairobi.
In 2001, 58 schoolboys had been killed in a dormitory fireplace at Kyanguli Secondary Faculty outdoors Nairobi.
In 2012, eight college students had been killed at a college in Homa Bay County in western Kenya.
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