NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 31 – Several students were rushed to the hospital on Sunday evening after a fire broke out at Buru Buru Girls High School.
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The school’s authorities, however, said none of the students sustained burns after the fire at the Kingdom dormitory with reports that there had been warnings from unnamed students that they will torch the school.
”Several students have been rushed to hospital after inhaling the smoke fumes,” an official at the school said, “We don’t have injuries from the fire.”
But video footage that went viral on social media showed some of the students jumping off from higher floors as onlookers watched helplessly after they were denied access to the school to take part in the rescue efforts.
He said at least 20 were taken to the hospital after the incident that occurred at around 5 pm.
According to Buru Buru Divisional Police Chief Francis Kamau, all the students taken to the hospital were complaining of suffocation.
“We don’t have any student with burns,” he told Capital FM News on telephone soon after the fire that caused panic at the institution.
He said the cause of the fire was not immediately clear, but an investigation had been launched.
Soon after the fire broke out, more than a dozen parents arrived at the school and demanded to be allowed to go home with their children leading to a stand-off.
“No one is telling us anything and that is why we want to be allowed to go home with our children,” one parent said.
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