Kyatune Boys School
shut after fire attack
By Mercy Mueni
in Kitui
Five students from Kyatune Boys Secondary School are in police custody for allegedly starting a fire that burnt down one of the school's dormitories.
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| The razed down dormitory |
The fire was ignited early yesterday as the students were in their preparatory studies for the day, gutting down the school's largest dormitory. The school was shut down and students sent home indefinitely shortly after the inferno as police sealed off the institution that had become a scene of crime.
The fire destroyed property including personal belongings of about over 100 students residing in the dormitory. Observers are worried that the fire came only two weeks after schools reopened from mid-term.
DCI Chief in Mutumo Subcounty Mr. Leonard Kurgat said a probe into the incident was underway to establish all the factors of the fire. Among those arrested is the boy who brought in petrol, the one who brought a match box and another who brought some papers, a DCI source said, adding that they will round up each boy who made a contribution to the inferno.
Even then, but some rumors sweeping across the village that the boys are playing truant and are targeting an impending examination. " The boys lit the fire to halt examinations which was to begin next Thursday.
Neither the school administration nor the the Ministry of Education had given their own account of the fire by the time we went to press.
