{"id":35674,"date":"2024-09-06T02:53:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T06:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/at-least-17-pupils-killed-in-kenya-school-fire\/06\/09\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T02:53:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T06:53:39","slug":"at-least-17-pupils-killed-in-kenya-school-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/at-least-17-pupils-killed-in-kenya-school-fire\/06\/09\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 17 pupils killed in Kenya school fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At least 17 pupils have died after a school in central Kenya caught fire on Thursday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>There are fears the death toll could rise as more than a dozen others have been taken to hospital with severe burns.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire at Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri county is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>President William Ruto called the fire &#8220;horrific&#8221; and &#8220;devastating&#8221;, and has ordered an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those responsible will be held to account,&#8221; Mr Ruto wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>A team of investigators has been deployed to the school, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Resila Onyango told AFP news agency that bodies recovered were &#8220;burnt beyond recognition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More bodies are likely to be recovered once (the) scene is fully processed,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya Red Cross said it is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KenyaRedCross\/status\/1831927492031988051\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:providing psychosocial support;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">providing psychosocial support<\/a> services to the pupils, teachers and affected families, and has set up a tracing desk at the school.<\/p>\n<p>School fires are relatively common in Kenyan boarding schools.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, 10 students died in an arson attack at Moi Girls High School in the capital Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>At least 67 students died in Machakos County, south-east of Nairobi, in the deadliest Kenyan school arson that took place more than 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<h2>BBC Africa podcasts<\/h2>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/least-17-pupils-killed-kenya-055150497.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 pupils have died after a school in central Kenya caught fire on Thursday night, police said. There are fears<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/at-least-17-pupils-killed-in-kenya-school-fire\/06\/09\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}