Property
estimated at Sh3million was destroyed after fire razed down a dormitory at St
Francis Kanja Secondary School in Embu East sub-county on Wednesday night. Police
are hunting for three students who had been suspended two days earlier and were
found roaming near the school fence shortly before the sudden fire.
The
fire started at around 7.30pm when students were in the dining hall for their
supper, according to area Administration Police Commandant Charles Machinji. Machinji
said there were no injuries from the inferno that reduced to ashes a dorm that
housed 80 students.
He
said an Embu County Government fire engine was dispatched to put out the fire
but arrived when all property had been burnt. He said the three students who
are the main suspects had been sent home after being found with alcohol two
days earlier but were found near the school fence on Wednesday evening and
threatened watchmen who confronted them.
"Investigations
are underway to establish the actual cause," he said. Machinji said
students had burnt a part of the same dorm last year but which had since been
repaired. He called for people of goodwill to assist the affected students who
lived in the dorm and who lost all their property.
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