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Kenyan school blaze victims mourned at mass funeral

BY REUTERS Thousands of mourners stood before rows of small white coffins on Thursday at a memorial service for 21 children who died in a boarding school fire in central Kenya earlier this month. The coffins were topped with bouquets of flowers and photographs of the young boys from Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri town, most between nine and 13, trapped in their dormitory. “To come to Nyeri and see all these coffins, this is one of the greatest national tragedies that we’ve had in our country,” said Eugene Wamalwa, an opposition lawmaker. Kenya has a sad history of school fires. There were more than 60 cases of arson in public secondary schools in 2018, according to most recent data in a […] The post Kenyan school blaze victims mourned at mass funeral first appeared on 93.3 KFM.

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