Metropolitan Hospital in Nairobi has said it is treating 59 students from Buruburu Girls High School after a dorm fire.
The learners are receiving treatment for smoke inhalation at the facility after a fire broke out in one of the dorms on Sunday evening.
According to a statement from the hospital, thirty others who were treated at the facility have been discharged.
The fire is reported to have nearly reduced one of the 45 cubicles that houses students from different classes to ashes.
Earlier, the school principal Carol Maina said that only 10 students had been rushed to the nearby Metropolitan and Jamaa hospitals in Buruburu after the inferno.
“There were 10 students in the cubicle and they have been taken to hospital for treatment,” she said.
Buruburu sub-county police boss, Mr Francis Kamau, confirmed that the fire started around 5pm and was later contained.
“We are yet to establish the cause of the fire but we have commenced investigations into the incident,” he said.
Soon after the fire broke out, several parents arrived at the school and demanded to be allowed to take their children home, leading to a standoff.
Videos of the Kingdom Dormitory which was on fire were shared online. They showed several students in uniform jumping out of the burning building. BY DAILY NATION
