Published 2024-09-08 23.45
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full screen An ambulance at the school that caught fire on Friday night. Photo: AP/TT
For the third day in a short time, a boarding school in Kenya has burned.
On Sunday, a dormitory for roughly 150 students was destroyed in a boys’ school in Meru in the eastern part of the country.
The fire started when the students were in a dining hall. No deaths have been reported, but “several” people have been injured.
On the night of last Friday, at least 21 people died in a fire at the Hillside Endarasha Primary boarding school in Nyeri, north of the capital Nairobi. In the dormitory where there was a fire, there were roughly 150 boys between the ages of 9 and 13.
Several were injured in the fire and some children are still missing.
On Saturday, there was also a fire in a girls’ school, about 14 kilometers northeast of Nyeri. No deaths have been reported.
President William Ruto has promised that those responsible for school fires will be brought to justice.