Agencies :
A total of 21 boys were confirmed dead on Saturday after a blaze tore through a school dormitory in central Kenya, a tragedy that has raised questions about safety standards at educational establishments nationwide.
And after night fell, another fire broke out at a girls’ school also in the centre of the country, with conflicting reports about injuries.
Earlier Saturday, the nation’s top prosecutor said he had instructed police to look into whether the deadly inferno at the Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri county had been caused by negligence or recklessness.
The flames engulfed a boys’ dormitory at the school around midnight on Thursday as more than 150 pupils aged between nine and 13 were sleeping.
Government spokesman Isaac Mwaura said a total of 19 bodies had been recovered from the site and another two had died in hospital.
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