High school student injured in dorm fire dies

Police escort three students of Karima Boys High School from Othaya Police Station Othaya Law Courts where they were charged with attempted arson on June 15, 2015. A Form Three student at Kanyuambora Boys High School in Meru County who suffered more than 50 per cent of burns following an arson attack died on May 14, 2016. PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NATION MEDIA GROUP

By  Charles Wanyoro

What you need to know:

  • Four students have been arrested in connection with the arson attack at the Kanyuambora High School.
  • Elsewhere, three Kirimari Secondary School students were on Friday afternoon arraigned in an Embu court charged with arson attack at their school.
  • The students denied the charge before Embu principal magistrate Robinson Oigara and were released on a Sh80,000 bond with a surety of similar amount.

A Form Three student who sustained burns during an arson attack on a school dormitory in Mbeere North Sub-County in Meru on Sunday has died.

The Kanyuambora High School student, Master Eric Mukundi, died at Kenyatta National Hospital where he was admitted after sustaining more than 50 per cent burns when his school dormitory was set ablaze.

“Four students have been arrested in connection to the incidence (arson attack) and would be arraigned in court soon,” said the school board management chairman Kariuki Mate.

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Elsewhere, three Kirimari Secondary School students were on Friday afternoon arraigned in an Embu court charged with setting ablaze a dormitory at their school on Wednesday.

The students denied the charge before Embu principal magistrate Robinson Oigara and were released on a Sh80,000 bond with a surety of similar amount.

State Counsel Fredah Mwanza successfully applied for the three to be remanded at a police station until Monday to ascertain their age.

They were charged that, together with others not in court, they set on fire a dormitory with 29 occupants, causing damage worth Sh357,000.

Mr Oigara also freed a fourth student who had been taken in as a suspect after the prosecution said there was no evidence linking him to the arson attack.

The case will be mentioned on May 16 and heard on May 27.

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