Eight of the 22 survivors of the Lokichoggio gun attack in Turkana County have undergone successful surgeries at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret town.
The Form One and Two victims sustained injuries during the early Saturday gun incident at Lokichoggio Mixed Secondary School and were rushed to Kakuma sub-county hospital before being airlifted to Eldoret for specialised treatment.
The hospital’s chief executive, Dr Wilson Aruasa, described the condition of the eight survivors, who are five male students and three female students, as stable after they underwent surgery.
“The students, who were taken to the facility on Saturday afternoon in a critical condition, are now responding well to treatment. We cannot tell when they will be discharged but from the look of things, it will be soon,” said Dr Aruasa.
KILLED
Six of their colleagues and a security guard were killed during the deadly revenge mission that lasted three hours.
The mastermind attacker was a student of South Sudan origin who was expelled from the school due to indiscipline.
On Tuesday, Dr Aruasa said the survivors were also undergoing psychological counselling by experts at the hospital following the trauma they went through under the hands of armed attackers.
“We want to ensure that the students have adjusted and accepted what happened before they travel back to their respective homes,” said Dr Aruasa.
LYNCHED
The attacker, who led four other armed men, had first shot dead the school’s guard, a Kenya police reservist who tried to repulse him and his accomplices, before they entered the rooms where the boys were sleeping.
In a deadly turn of events, angry residents pulled the attacker, Abraham Lochor , out of a police station at Kakuma Refugee Camp and lynched him on Saturday.
Recounting their ordeal in the hands of the attackers, the survivors said it was by sheer luck that they escaped death.
