MERU COUNTY, KENYA: A blaze destroyed a dormitory at a Kenyan college on Sunday (Sep 8), police mentioned, the third such incident in simply days.
A dorm at Njia Boys Excessive College within the central county of Meru caught hearth as college students had been having supper and no casualties had been reported, a police assertion mentioned.
The constructing housing about 150 college students “utterly burnt down, the inferno consuming all the pieces, and property of unknown worth was destroyed”, it mentioned.
Final Thursday, 21 boys perished when flames engulfed their dormitory at the Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri County as they had 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 mentioned there have been a number of accidents, however police mentioned 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 can be dropped at justice.
