A complete of 21 boys had been confirmed lifeless on Saturday (Sep 7) after a blaze tore via a college dormitory in central Kenya, a tragedy that has raised questions on security requirements at academic institutions nationwide.
And after evening fell, one other hearth broke out at a women’ college additionally within the centre of the nation, with conflicting stories about accidents.
Earlier Saturday, the nation’s prime prosecutor mentioned he had instructed police to look into whether or not the lethal inferno on the Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri County had been attributable to negligence or recklessness.
The flames engulfed a boys’ dormitory on the college round midnight on Thursday as greater than 150 pupils aged between 9 and 13 had been sleeping.
Authorities spokesman Isaac Mwaura mentioned a complete of 19 our bodies had been recovered from the location and one other two had died in hospital.
Of the overall 156 boys within the dorm on the time, 139 had now been accounted for, both at residence or in hospital, he added.
“It’s a disaster past our creativeness,” Mwaura mentioned at a press briefing.
The charred our bodies of the victims, which police had mentioned had been burnt past recognition, had been discovered within the dormitory, now a blackened shell with its corrugated iron roof utterly collapsed.
Murder groups and forensic consultants stepped up their investigations on the college on Saturday, with DNA exams to be carried out to determine the victims