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Offline KenyanPlato

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19 students die in a dormitory fire
« on: September 06, 2024, 09:03:20 AM »
Kenya boarding schools are dangerous places. I see reports of kids dying in dorm fire in nyeri. Over 19 kids reported dead

https://apnews.com/article/kenya-school-fire-nyeri-7017997f40514fefe817a820a7f6c6c9

Offline Kadudu

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Re: 19 students die in a dormitory fire
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2024, 09:28:16 AM »
I remember we used to have fire drills in boarding school. Do they still take place? I am told my former school has blocked all the fire exits that we were to use in case a fire breaks out. Is there another fire exit? I doubt. So these deaths of students in dormitories is not a surprise.

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Re: 19 students die in a dormitory fire
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2024, 01:40:27 PM »
School fires have become our mass shootings demented coping mechanisms because adults cannot live with children harmoniously.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one ~ Thomas Paine

Offline Georgesoros

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Re: 19 students die in a dormitory fire
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2024, 04:59:12 PM »
I remembre Lucy Kibaki used to complain about the culture of recklessness. Speeding without regard to life, does it still exist??
Nine yr old shoud really be protected by a mother, not in boarding schoool.

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Re: 19 students die in a dormitory fire
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2024, 05:32:42 PM »
We need proper investigation on the cause of this fire.Two other schools have been burnt down.

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Re: 19 students die in a dormitory fire
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2024, 06:08:48 PM »
Investigations mean little. The DCI homicide guys were just running around with white kabutis with no crime scene equipment.

The kids were protesting having to sleep while the lights were on, going by this account from the parent. 

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Re: 19 students die in a dormitory fire
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2024, 09:11:35 PM »
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">70 kids are missing as a result of that fire, which probably means they ran off into the darkness to save themselves... And we are moving on like nothing happened. No choppers hovering over the area to search for the kids. In other countries, the military would be on the ground…</p>&mdash; Juma G 🇰🇪 (@jumaf3) <a href="?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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