At the very least three college students have been injured after a hearth broke out at a ladies boarding faculty in central Kenya’s Isiolo city on Saturday, the Purple Cross says.
It comes after the deaths of at the very least 21 kids in a hearth at a boarding faculty in Nyeri, additionally in central Kenya, at round 23:00 native time (20:00 GMT) on Thursday.
A Kenyan police spokesperson mentioned the blaze destroyed dormitories at Isiolo Women Excessive College, earlier than being contained.
The reason for the blaze is unknown, however there have been quite a few fires in boarding colleges in Kenya lately, prompting nationwide concern about security requirements.
The Kenya Purple Cross mentioned three kids had suffered minor accidents, and had obtained psychological first help.
Police, fireplace and rescue squads might be seen utilizing flashlights to seek for any college students and salvageable property within the destroyed dormitories, Reuters information company reviews.
In the meantime, DNA testing will start on Monday to determine the our bodies of kids who died within the fireplace at Hillside Endarasha Academy on Thursday evening.
Officers say 17 kids stay unaccounted for – with some dad and mom and kin tenting on the faculty to demand solutions.
President William Ruto has declared three days of mourning, beginning on Monday, for the victims of the fireplace.
The reason for the fireplace remains to be unclear.
Investigators ought to “assess whether or not or not the tragedy might have resulted from negligence and/or recklessness”, the chief prosecutor mentioned in an announcement.
Director of Public Prosecutions Renson Ingonga mentioned the tragedy “evokes unhealthy recollections of different comparable faculty fireplace incidents” that many instances pointed to a failure to adjust to security requirements.
In 2022, a dormitory in western Kenya burnt down, with a number of college students later arrested on suspicion of arson.
In 2017, 10 college students died in an arson assault at Moi Women Excessive College within the capital Nairobi.
At the very least 67 college students died in Machakos County, south-east of Nairobi, within the deadliest Kenyan faculty arson that passed off greater than 20 years in the past.