A woman is assisted as she reacts after visiting the burned dorm room at the Nyeri county's Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri county on September 6, 2024 after a fire broke out killing 17 children. - At least 17 children died after a fire ripped through their primary school dormitory in central Kenya, police said Friday September 06, 2024. The blaze in Nyeri county's Hillside Endarasha Academy broke out at around midnight, police said, engulfing rooms where the children were sleeping. (Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP)
Seventy children were still missing following a blaze that destroyed a school dormitory in central Kenya and killed at least 17 young pupils, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua said Friday.
“We still have 70 kids that are unaccounted — that does not mean they are perished or they are injured. The word is that they are unaccounted for,” Gachagua told reporters outside the Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri county where the fire occurred overnight.
