MERU COUNTY, KENYA: A blaze destroyed a dormitory at a Kenyan college on Sunday (Sep 8), police stated, the third such incident in simply days.
A dorm at Njia Boys Excessive Faculty within the central county of Meru caught hearth as college students have been having supper and no casualties have been reported, a police assertion stated.
The constructing housing about 150 college students “utterly burnt down, the inferno consuming the whole lot, and property of unknown worth was destroyed”, it stated.
Final Thursday, 21 boys perished when flames engulfed their dormitory on the Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri County as they have been sleeping.
And on Saturday, one other hearth erupted at a women’ highschool in Isiolo county, additionally within the centre of the nation.
A neighborhood official stated there have been a number of accidents, however police stated nobody was harm.
Final week’s lethal inferno has thrown the highlight on security at Kenya’s colleges, with President William Ruto vowing that these accountable could be delivered to justice.
